While the area covered by the Deanery is not generally very wealthy, it is rich and varied in its mix of people. Being on the northern outskirts of the enormous shopping and business centre of Croydon, it falls between the inner-city and suburbia - an urban deanery perhaps!

While each church has its own development pattern and many of the inter-church relationships are ecumenical, the Deanery and its Chapter offer places for discussion and support.