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On Dunbar Avenue, in Norbury East
What it's like at SW16 4SB: every home that has sold on Dunbar 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Dunbar 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.
2 of the 41 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Dunbar AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Jun 2017 | £500,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Nov 2001 | £189,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Feb 2023 | £615,000 | 153 m² | £4,020/m² | 2 |
| 9, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Nov 2016 | £495,000 | 107 m² | £4,626/m² | 2 |
| 13, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Aug 1996 | £69,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Aug 2010 | £277,950 | 110 m² | £2,527/m² | 3 |
| 19, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Sept 2021 | £465,000 | 101 m² | £4,604/m² | 1 |
| 23, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Jul 2006 | £257,500 | 110 m² | £2,341/m² | 1 |
| 33, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Mar 2023 | £400,000 | 114 m² | £3,509/m² | 2 |
| 35, Dunbar AvenueTerraced | Sept 2016 | £399,999 | 104 m² | £3,846/m² | 1 |
| Fairholme, 1a, Dunbar AvenueDetached | Oct 2006 | £440,000 | – | – | 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 (800 m), with 2.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Ederline Avenue, 200 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (route 50); 39 departures an hour from the 7 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 Kensington Avenue Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 64% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School (0.8 km), with 4 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Norbury High School for Girls, 600 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 Tesco Express, 450 m away, with It's Candy Time (A.S. Gulf Services (U.K.) Limited) closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Norbury Medical Practice (550 m), with Norbury Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, World @ - Cut Barbers is 750 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.
Somomo is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Moon Under Water the nearest pub (450 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 Norbury Hall Park, 200 m away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (200 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 11 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
47 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%.
42 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 SW16 4SB →
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.
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.
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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 41 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 22 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 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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