CR2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

996 of the district's 2,223 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.34783, -0.08201, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in CR2

Companies House lists 4,793 companies with a registered office in CR2; 1,235 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for CR2

• London
• Croydon
• Greater London
• Purley

Roads filed under CR2

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbey Road
• Abercorn Close
• Addington Road
• Albatross Gardens
• Allder Way
• Allenby Avenue
• All Saints Drive
• Ambleside Gardens
• Ansley Close
• Arboreta Close
• Arkwright Road
• Arundel Avenue
• Ashdown Gardens
• Ashen Vale
• Attwood Close
• Avis Grove
• Avondale Road
• Avon Path
• Balfont Close
• Ballards Farm Road
• Ballards Rise
• Ballards Way
• Ballater Road
• Balmoral Gardens
• Bankside
• Barham Road
• Barnards Place
• Barnfield Road
• Barrowsfield
• Bartlett Street
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Copse
• Beech Grove
• Beech Way
• Beechwood Road
• Benchfield
• Benhurst Close
• Benhurst Gardens
• Biddulph Road
• Binfield Road
• Birchend Close
• Birdhurst Avenue
• Birdhurst Gardens
• Birdhurst Rise
• Birdhurst Road
• Birdwood Close
• Blackford Close
• Blacksmiths Hill
• Blenheim Crescent
• Blenheim Gardens
• Blenheim Park Road
• Blossom Close
• Blunt Road
• Borrowdale Close
• Borrowdale Drive
• Boxford Close
• Braemar Avenue
• Brambledown Road
• Bramley Close
• Bramley Hill

Check an address in CR2

Check an address in CR2

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CR2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about CR2

What does a CR2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the CR2 district of the CR (Croydon) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 996 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest CR2

• CR02.8 km
• CR82.9 km
• CR93.1 km
• SM64.6 km
• CR64.7 km
• SE255.6 km
• CR55.8 km
• BR45.9 km
• CR76.0 km
• SM56.5 km
• CR36.6 km
• BR37.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids