EC2A postcode district: Hackney and around

EC2A is a postcode district in England, with 337 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Hackney, Islington, Tower Hamlets and 1 more place. It is split between 3 councils: Hackney (238 postcodes), Islington (89) and City of London (10).

Postcodes in use: 337
Sectors: 4
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 4 places

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.

Every postcode in EC2A, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 12
Some can get gigabit: 54
Every home and business can get gigabit: 211
Ofcom gives no figure: 60
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 337 postcodes in EC2A that ONS places, 12 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 54 have some that can, 211 can all get it and 60 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 51.5237, longitude -0.0855. 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.

Postcodes without gigabit

EC2A 1AL EC2A 1NS EC2A 2EG EC2A 3HN EC2A 4BF EC2A 4BW EC2A 4DR EC2A 4EE EC2A 4EL EC2A 4LL EC2A 4NJ EC2A 4QB

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EC2A 4LL, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EC2A?

Ofcom reports on 277 of the 337 postcodes in EC2A. At 211 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit211 of 277

Postcodes where every home can get superfast225 of 277

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 checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is EC2A at risk of flooding?

None of the 337 postcodes in EC2A 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 EC2A?

Homes in EC2A sold for a typical £620,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 13 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £932,500 from 26 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£620,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026

£932,500 12 months to September 2025

Flat or maisonette £620,000 13 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 EC2A

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

EC2A 150 postcodes EC2A 255 postcodes EC2A 3104 postcodes EC2A 4128 postcodes

UK postcode format explained

Places in EC2A

Towns and villages with postcodes in EC2A, and how many each has here.

Hackney postcodes,230 Islington postcodes,84 Tower Hamlets postcodes,15 City of London postcodes,7

Who covers EC2A

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

Hackney South and Shoreditch238
Islington South and Finsbury89
Cities of London and Westminster10

Police force areas

Metropolitan Police327
City of London10

Next to EC2A

EC1Y postcode district EC2M postcode district All EC districts Hackney postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EC2A 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.

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.

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