EC2Y postcode district: City of London and around

EC2Y is a postcode district in England, with 89 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in City of London and Islington. It is split between 2 councils: City of London (82 postcodes) and Islington (7).

Postcodes in use
89
Sectors
3
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 EC2Y, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in EC2Y, by flood risk Of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y that ONS places, 89 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Cripplegate, Aldersgate. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A201A1A401A40 EC2Y 5AG: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5AP: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5AS: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5AU: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5AY: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5BL: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5BN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5DB: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5DE: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5DN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5EA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5EJ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5ET: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5HN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 5JA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AE: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AF: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AG: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AH: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AT: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AX: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BB: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BE: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BH: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BJ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BL: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BP: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BT: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BX: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BY: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DE: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DH: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DJ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DL: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DP: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DQ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DR: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DS: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DT: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DU: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DX: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DY: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8EA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8EN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8HD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8HQ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8ZB: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AG: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AL: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AP: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AQ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AR: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9AW: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9BH: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9DB: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9DP: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9DT: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 9HD: not on the flood risk list CripplegateAldersgate Map of every postcode in EC2Y, by flood risk Of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y that ONS places, 89 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Cripplegate, Aldersgate. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CripplegateAldersgate
  • 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: 89

Of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y that ONS places, 89 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 51.5195, longitude -0.0935. 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 EC2Y?

Ofcom reports on 79 of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y. At 69 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit69 of 79
Postcodes where every home can get superfast73 of 79

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 EC2Y at risk of flooding?

None of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y 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 EC2Y?

Homes in EC2Y sold for a typical £822,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 54 sales, down 5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£822,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£866,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 5% on the 12 months before
  • Terraced 1 sale, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette £820,000 53 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 EC2Y

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

EC2Y 517 postcodesEC2Y 851 postcodesEC2Y 921 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in EC2Y

Towns and villages with postcodes in EC2Y, and how many each has here.

City of London postcodes,78Islington postcodes,10

Who covers EC2Y

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 Westminster82
  • Islington South and Finsbury7

Police force areas

  • City of London82
  • Metropolitan Police7

Next to EC2Y

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"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EC2Y in the EC area.

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