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On Norbury Avenue, in Norbury East
What it's like at CR7 8AP: every home that has sold on Norbury Avenue 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.
10 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 Norbury Avenue; 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.
10 of the 148 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 131, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 1998 | £80,500 | 94 m² | £856/m² | 1 |
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| 133, Norbury AvenueTerraced | Oct 2022 | £410,000 | 89 m² | £4,607/m² | 1 |
| 143, Norbury AvenueTerraced | Jul 2014 | £270,000 | 93 m² | £2,903/m² | 3 |
| 145, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 1999 | £93,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 147, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2016 | £357,000 | 115 m² | £3,104/m² | 1 |
| 151, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £495,000 | 89 m² | £5,562/m² | 1 |
| 155, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £239,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 161, Norbury AvenueTerraced | Nov 2006 | £210,000 | 92 m² | £2,283/m² | 1 |
| 169, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2017 | £400,000 | 86 m² | £4,651/m² | 1 |
| 171, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £490,000 | 92 m² | £5,326/m² | 1 |
| 173, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 1999 | £122,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 183, Norbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £350,000 | 95 m² | £3,684/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Norbury, about a 10-minute walk (900 m), with 2.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Ederline Avenue, 100 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (route 50); 28 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 16% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 11 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 71% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Norbury High School for Girls, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 46.4 · 9.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Academy Merton (1.5 km) and St Mark's Church of England Academy (2.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wallington County Grammar School (5.1 km) and Wilson's School (5.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Welcome Store, 450 m away; Presidential Foods (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Norbury Medical Practice (850 m), with Norbury Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, World @ - Cut Barbers is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Croydon University Hospital, 2.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 73% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
The Village Chinese Take-Away is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and The Moon Under Water the nearest pub (700 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (21 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 85 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 31% flats and 6% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 44% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Green Lane Sports Ground, 300 m away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (500 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 11 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 16.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 16 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 24 km.
45 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.
Streatham and Croydon North constituency: Steve Reed MP (Labour (Co-op)), since November 2012. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,603 (35.0%), turnout 58%. Vote shares: Labour 52%, Green Party 17%, Conservative 12%, Liberal Democrat 11%.
37 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 CR7 8AP →
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
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 148 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 115 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 85.6% | 86.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.7% | 8.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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