Neighbourhoods in Croydon
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
45 neighbourhoods · 229 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Croydon
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Croydon. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Croydon median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Croydon.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Croydon
Crime in Croydon runs at 16% below the national average. Bottom quartile (#252 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 84.8, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Croydon
100% of schools serving Croydon are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Croydon
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Croydon
Croydon has 0.31 jobs per resident locally. Bottom 10%
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Croydon
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Croydon?
- The median monthly rent across Croydon is £1,560, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Croydon?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Croydon by estimated median rent is New Addington North at approximately £1,124/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Croydon?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Croydon is Park Hill & Lloyd Park at 82/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Croydon a safe area?
- Croydon has an average safety score of 55/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Croydon?
- The most common council tax band in Croydon is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,089. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Croydon.
- What is the average salary in Croydon?
- The median annual resident salary in Croydon is £38,080, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Croydon, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Croydon?
- The average property price in Croydon is approximately £389,585 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Croydon?
- Gross rental yield in Croydon is approximately 4.5% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Croydon?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 5.4 years in Croydon. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Croydon?
- 100% of premises in Croydon are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Croydon?
- 6.3% of 16-64 residents in Croydon are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Croydon?
- Croydon contains 45 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 229 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Croydon
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Croydon 013D
- Croydon 008D
- Croydon 015A
- Croydon 005D
- Croydon 011E
- Croydon 007A
- Croydon 009B
- Croydon 022F
- Croydon 022B
- Croydon 022C
- Croydon 006E
- Croydon 013B
- Croydon 010D
- Croydon 020D
- Croydon 029C
- Croydon 010E
- Croydon 022A
- Croydon 014C
- Croydon 046C
- Croydon 007D
- Croydon 013C
- Croydon 015F
- Croydon 022D
- Croydon 023B
- Croydon 046A
- Croydon 011C
- Croydon 005C
- Croydon 019C
- Croydon 016B
- Croydon 005A
- Croydon 023A
- Croydon 004C
- Croydon 020A
- Croydon 001E
- Croydon 008B
- Croydon 020B
- Croydon 031C
- Croydon 004D
- Croydon 001A
- Croydon 020E
- Croydon 024B
- Croydon 003C
- Croydon 019E
- Croydon 047C
- Croydon 023D
- Croydon 041E
- Croydon 022E
- Croydon 024E
- Croydon 017E
- Croydon 046B
- Croydon 020F
- Croydon 002E
- Croydon 008C
- Croydon 010B
- Croydon 047D
- Croydon 011B
- Croydon 019B
- Croydon 016E
- Croydon 013A
- Croydon 017D
- Croydon 015E
- Croydon 015D
- Croydon 015B
- Croydon 001D
- Croydon 002D
- Croydon 031B
- Croydon 017B
- Croydon 002A
- Croydon 024C
- Croydon 047A
- Croydon 024D
- Croydon 020G
- Croydon 010C
- Croydon 009D
- Croydon 028E
- Croydon 010A
- Croydon 007C
- Croydon 016D
- Croydon 007E
- Croydon 004A
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