EC1Y postcode district: Islington and around
EC1Y is a postcode district in England, with 174 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Islington and City of London. It is split between 2 councils: Islington (150 postcodes) and City of London (24).
- Postcodes in use
- 174
- Sectors
- 5
- Councils
- 2 councils
- Places
- 2 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in EC1Y, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 5
- Some can get gigabit: 21
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 139
- Ofcom gives no figure: 9
Of the 174 postcodes in EC1Y that ONS places, 5 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 21 have some that can, 139 can all get it and 9 have no Ofcom figure.
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 51.5231, longitude -0.0922. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
What broadband can you get in EC1Y?
Ofcom reports on 165 of the 174 postcodes in EC1Y. At 139 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is EC1Y at risk of flooding?
None of the 174 postcodes in EC1Y 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in EC1Y?
Homes in EC1Y sold for a typical £582,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 20 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £688,000 from 25 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.
- Flat or maisonette £582,500 20 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 October 2026.
Postcodes in EC1Y
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in EC1Y
Towns and villages with postcodes in EC1Y, and how many each has here.
Who covers EC1Y
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
- Islington South and Finsbury150
- Cities of London and Westminster24
Police force areas
- Metropolitan Police150
- City of London24
Next to EC1Y
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EC1Y in the EC area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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