BR3 4FA Bromley

Live postcode, introduced March 2008. Ward: Clock House. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Bromley in 2026-27: Band D £2,140 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,427£1,664£1,902£2,140£2,616£3,091£3,567£4,280

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (46% of about 950 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers). Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsClock House 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2590 m
Kent House 814,000 journeys in 2024–25550 m
New Beckenham 721,000 journeys in 2024–25920 m
Underground, metro or tramBeckenham Road Tram Stop290 m
Avenue Road Tram Stop740 m
Beckenham Junction Tram Stop930 m
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 37 within 800 m; nearest Clock House Station Beckenham20 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road5.2 km
Ferry terminalGreenwich Pier8.6 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.6 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.0 km

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 169 residents in 97 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age4540
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented44%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van22%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram19%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)44%65%
Work 30 km or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Beckenham Road.