Facts about Croydon - London's biggest borough
One of the London Plan’s opportunity areas
Education
- 33% school students qualified to NVQ4 (national 29%)
- 73% of pupils gained five A*-C grade GCSEs
- 25% of the population is under 18
Transport
- 16 minutes by train from Victoria and Gatwick Airport
- London’s only tram network carries 27 million people a year
Residents
- 42% of Croydon’s workforce work within 5km of home
- Largest population in London 339,000
Clean and green
- Over 300 parks making one third of Croydon green spaces
- Seven Green Flag parks
- Happy Valley offers over 100 hectares of grass and green woodland
House prices
- Average £227,014
- Detached £437,066
- Semi-detached £261,531
- Terraced £201,106
- Flat £165,206
Source: Land Registry Sept 2009
Retail
- 14th in UK retail ranking
- Over 230,000 sq m of retail space
- Whitgift shopping centre has 140 stores
- Over 60 shops in Centrale mall
Culture, eating out
- Fairfield Halls seats 1,789 and The Beatles and Elton John have graced its stage
- South Croydon’s Le Cassoulet won Time Out’s Best Local Restaurant 2008
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- Average gross weekly earnings £498
- 93% employment is in SMEs
- Pilot authority for the HCA’s single conversation