EC1A postcode district: City of London and around

EC1A is a postcode district in England, with 165 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in City of London and Islington. It is split between 2 councils: City of London (100 postcodes) and Islington (65).

Postcodes in use
165
Sectors
5
Councils
2 councils
Places
2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in EC1A, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in EC1A, by flood risk Of the 165 postcodes in EC1A that ONS places, 165 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Clerkenwell, Farringdon Within. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A201A401A40A5201 EC1A 1AA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 1AH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 1AZ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 1HQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2AD: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2AT: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2AY: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2BN: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2BP: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2DE: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2DH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2DJ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2DQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2EJ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2FD: not on the flood risk listEC1A 2FG: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4AE: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4AS: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4EN: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4ER: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4EU: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4HD: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4HJ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4HT: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4HU: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4HY: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JE: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JN: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JP: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JR: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JT: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4JU: not on the flood risk listEC1A 4LA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7AA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7AB: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7AE: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7AZ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BB: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BD: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BE: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BF: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BG: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BL: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BN: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BS: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BT: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BU: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BW: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7BX: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7DH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7ES: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HF: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HN: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HP: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HT: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HU: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HW: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7HZ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7JA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7JN: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7JQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7LD: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7LP: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7LS: not on the flood risk listEC1A 7NT: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9AG: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9BU: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9BW: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9DD: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9DE: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9DS: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9DY: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9EJ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9ET: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HB: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HF: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HG: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HP: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HX: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9HY: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9JQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9JR: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9JU: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9JX: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9LA: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9LB: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9LH: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9LJ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9LQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9LR: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9NB: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9PL: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9PN: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9PQ: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9PS: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9PT: not on the flood risk listEC1A 9RQ: not on the flood risk list ClerkenwellFarringdon Within Map of every postcode in EC1A, by flood risk Of the 165 postcodes in EC1A that ONS places, 165 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Clerkenwell, Farringdon Within. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A401 ClerkenwellFarringdon Within
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 165

Of the 165 postcodes in EC1A that ONS places, 165 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.5205, longitude -0.1042. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

What broadband can you get in EC1A?

Ofcom reports on 97 of the 165 postcodes in EC1A. At 74 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit74 of 97
Postcodes where every home can get superfast83 of 97

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is EC1A at risk of flooding?

None of the 165 postcodes in EC1A is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in EC1A?

Homes in EC1A sold for a typical £600,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 19 sales, down 15.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£600,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£710,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 15.5% on the 12 months before
  • Flat or maisonette £600,000 19 sales

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in EC1A

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

EC1A 155 postcodesEC1A 212 postcodesEC1A 423 postcodesEC1A 736 postcodesEC1A 939 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in EC1A

Towns and villages with postcodes in EC1A, and how many each has here.

City of London postcodes,100Islington postcodes,65

Who covers EC1A

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Cities of London and Westminster100
  • Islington South and Finsbury65

Police force areas

  • City of London100
  • Metropolitan Police65

Next to EC1A

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"Next to" is by number: the district after EC1A in the EC area.

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