EC2R postcode district: City of London and around

EC2R is a postcode district in England, with 72 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in City of London and Islington. It is split between 2 councils: City of London (65 postcodes) and Islington (7).

Postcodes in use
72
Sectors
4
Councils
2 councils
Places
2 places

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

Every postcode in EC2R, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in EC2R, by gigabit broadband Of the 72 postcodes in EC2R that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 13 have some that can, 42 can all get it and 15 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: City of London. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A201A1A1211A401 EC2R 5AB: no Ofcom figureEC2R 5BX: no Ofcom figureEC2R 5WD: no Ofcom figureEC2R 7BS: no Ofcom figureEC2R 7NH: no Ofcom figureEC2R 8AL: no Ofcom figureEC2R 5AA: gigabit for allEC2R 5AL: gigabit for allEC2R 5BB: gigabit for allEC2R 5BJ: gigabit for allEC2R 5BT: gigabit for allEC2R 5EH: gigabit for allEC2R 6AB: gigabit for allEC2R 6AD: gigabit for allEC2R 6AG: gigabit for allEC2R 6AR: gigabit for allEC2R 6AY: gigabit for allEC2R 6BH: gigabit for allEC2R 6EA: gigabit for allEC2R 6EL: gigabit for allEC2R 6JJ: gigabit for allEC2R 6PP: gigabit for allEC2R 7AF: gigabit for allEC2R 7AP: gigabit for allEC2R 7AR: gigabit for allEC2R 7AS: gigabit for allEC2R 7BH: gigabit for allEC2R 7DA: gigabit for allEC2R 7DJ: gigabit for allEC2R 7HB: gigabit for allEC2R 7HD: gigabit for allEC2R 7HF: gigabit for allEC2R 7HH: gigabit for allEC2R 7NJ: gigabit for allEC2R 8AB: gigabit for allEC2R 8AD: gigabit for allEC2R 8AH: gigabit for allEC2R 8AJ: gigabit for allEC2R 8AR: gigabit for allEC2R 8DQ: gigabit for allEC2R 8DU: gigabit for allEC2R 8HG: gigabit for allEC2R 8JB: gigabit for allEC2R 7HJ: gigabit for allEC2R 5AR: some gigabitEC2R 6AF: some gigabitEC2R 6DA: some gigabitEC2R 6EJ: some gigabitEC2R 6LL: some gigabitEC2R 7HP: some gigabitEC2R 8AQ: some gigabitEC2R 8AY: some gigabitEC2R 8DD: some gigabitEC2R 8DN: some gigabitEC2R 8EJ: some gigabitEC2R 8HP: some gigabitEC2R 7AH: no gigabitEC2R 7DN: no gigabit City of London Map of every postcode in EC2R, by gigabit broadband Of the 72 postcodes in EC2R that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 13 have some that can, 42 can all get it and 15 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: City of London. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. City of London
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 2
  • Some can get gigabit: 13
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 42
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 15

Of the 72 postcodes in EC2R that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 13 have some that can, 42 can all get it and 15 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.5163, longitude -0.0911. 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

EC2R 7AHEC2R 7DN

What broadband can you get in EC2R?

Ofcom reports on 57 of the 72 postcodes in EC2R. At 42 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit42 of 57
Postcodes where every home can get superfast42 of 57

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 EC2R at risk of flooding?

None of the 72 postcodes in EC2R 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 EC2R?

HM Land Registry records no standard sales of homes in EC2R in the 12 months to September 2026.

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 EC2R

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

EC2R 511 postcodesEC2R 616 postcodesEC2R 724 postcodesEC2R 821 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in EC2R

Towns and villages with postcodes in EC2R, and how many each has here.

City of London postcodes,65Islington postcodes,7

Who covers EC2R

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 Westminster65
  • Islington South and Finsbury7

Police force areas

  • City of London65
  • Metropolitan Police7

Next to EC2R

EC2P postcode district EC2V postcode district All EC districts City of London postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EC2R in the EC area.

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Where the facts on this page come from

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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