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On Rickman Hill, in Woodmansterne
What it's like at CR5 3DU: every home that has sold on Rickman Hill since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 6 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Rickman Hill; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 88 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 99, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Dec 2006 | £335,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 105, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Oct 2015 | £415,000 | 103 m² | £4,029/m² | 2 |
| 107, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Sept 1995 | £100,000 | 127 m² | £787/m² | 1 |
| 109, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Oct 2006 | £314,000 | 109 m² | £2,881/m² | 2 |
| 111, Rickman HillSemi-detached | May 2018 | £450,000 | 85 m² | £5,294/m² | 1 |
| 113, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Jan 1995 | £91,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 117, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Mar 1998 | £115,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 119, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £485,000 | 81 m² | £5,988/m² | 1 |
| 123, Rickman HillDetached | Aug 2008 | £545,450 | – | – | 2 |
| 125, Rickman HillDetached · company-owned | Jul 2016 | £525,000 | 264 m² | £1,989/m² | 2 |
| 137, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £473,500 | 122 m² | £3,881/m² | 1 |
| 141, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Jan 2019 | £413,000 | 79 m² | £5,228/m² | 1 |
| 143, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £435,000 | 90 m² | £4,833/m² | 1 |
| 145, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £542,000 | 92 m² | £5,891/m² | 2 |
| 147, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Mar 2022 | £499,995 | 79 m² | £6,329/m² | 1 |
| 149, Rickman HillSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £93,000 | 100 m² | £930/m² | 1 |
| 151, Rickman HillDetached | Oct 2018 | £620,000 | 135 m² | £4,593/m² | 2 |
| 151a, Rickman HillDetached | Jul 2011 | £480,000 | 130 m² | £3,692/m² | 2 |
| 153, Rickman HillDetached | Jul 1997 | £162,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 155, Rickman HillDetached | Sept 2024 | £655,000 | 103 m² | £6,359/m² | 5 |
| 157, Rickman HillDetached | Jan 2026 | £660,000 | 105 m² | £6,286/m² | 3 |
| 161, Rickman HillDetached | Feb 2026 | £692,000 | 126 m² | £5,492/m² | 4 |
| 163, Rickman HillDetached | Mar 2021 | £620,000 | 102 m² | £6,078/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Woodmansterne, about a 10-minute walk (800 m), with 127k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Ridgemount Avenue, 200 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 434); 9 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 21 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Smitham Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 62% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Chipstead Valley Primary School (0.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Woodcote High School, 2.4 km away; Attainment 8: 46.1 · 8.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Riddlesdown Collegiate (4.4 km) and Harris Academy Sutton (4.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wallington High School for Girls (3.7 km) and Wilson's School (5.1 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 1.4 km away, with Best One closer still (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Woodcote Medical (1.1 km), with Valley Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Mirage Hair Design is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, 7.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 67% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 67% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Lorettas.co.uk is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Smugglers Inn the nearest pub (850 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 7% flats and 25% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 53% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Lakers Rise Recreation Ground, 1.3 km away; for exercise, Old Walcountians Association (1.9 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 18 km away.
9 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Croydon South constituency: Chris Philp MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 2,313 (4.7%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 35%, Liberal Democrat 9%, Reform UK 8%.
16 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near CR5 3DU →
Most households own their home, 8% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 45% of adults have a degree.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Croydon since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 88 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Southwick · about 48 min
Nearest: Guildford Lido · about 35 min
Nearest: Bluebell Railway · about 37 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 71 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.7% | 86.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.9% | 8.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 4.7% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.