CR9 postcode district
CR9, in the CR (Croydon) postcode area, has 126 live and 1,783 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 12 roads under it.
| postcode area | CR (Croydon) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 126 |
| terminated postcodes | 1,783 |
| sectors | 10 |
| roads listed | 12 |
| companies registered | 396 |
| centroid | 51.37366, -0.09831 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
126 of the district's 1,909 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 51.37366, -0.09831, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| CR9 0 | 4 | 90 |
| CR9 1 | 65 | 277 |
| CR9 2 | 16 | 311 |
| CR9 3 | 14 | 292 |
| CR9 4 | 8 | 233 |
| CR9 5 | 8 | 120 |
| CR9 6 | 6 | 217 |
| CR9 7 | 3 | 92 |
| CR9 8 | 1 | 71 |
| CR9 9 | 1 | 80 |
Companies registered in CR9
Companies House lists 396 companies with a registered office in CR9; 201 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 CR9
- London
- Greater London
- Croydon
- Sutton
Roads filed under CR9
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.
- Altyre Road
- Chapel Walk
- Hazledean Road
- Katharine Street
- Lennard Road
- Meadow Stile
- Mint Walk
- Park Lane
- Pylon Way
- Reeves Corner
- Vulcan Way
- Wellesley Passage
Check an address in CR9
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CR9" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about CR9
- What does a CR9 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the CR9 district of the CR (Croydon) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Croydon. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 126 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 CR9
- CR01.4 km
- CR72.9 km
- SE253.1 km
- CR23.1 km
- SM63.5 km
- CR84.8 km
- SM54.9 km
- SE195.0 km
- SE205.1 km
- CR45.4 km
- SW165.7 km
- BR35.9 km
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