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

Every postcode in EC2Y, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in EC2Y, by gigabit broadband Of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 7 have some that can, 69 can all get it and 10 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: Cripplegate, Aldersgate. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A201A1A401A40 EC2Y 5AY: no Ofcom figureEC2Y 5DB: no Ofcom figureEC2Y 8HD: no Ofcom figureEC2Y 8ZB: no Ofcom figureEC2Y 9AR: no Ofcom figureEC2Y 9DP: no Ofcom figureEC2Y 5AG: gigabit for allEC2Y 5AP: gigabit for allEC2Y 5AS: gigabit for allEC2Y 5AU: gigabit for allEC2Y 5BL: gigabit for allEC2Y 5BN: gigabit for allEC2Y 5DE: gigabit for allEC2Y 5DN: gigabit for allEC2Y 5EA: gigabit for allEC2Y 5ET: gigabit for allEC2Y 5HN: gigabit for allEC2Y 5JA: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AA: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AD: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AE: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AF: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AG: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AH: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AT: gigabit for allEC2Y 8AX: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BB: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BD: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BE: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BH: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BJ: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BL: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BP: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BT: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BX: gigabit for allEC2Y 8BY: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DD: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DE: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DH: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DL: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DN: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DP: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DR: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DS: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DT: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DU: gigabit for allEC2Y 8DX: gigabit for allEC2Y 8EA: gigabit for allEC2Y 8EN: gigabit for allEC2Y 8HQ: gigabit for allEC2Y 9AA: gigabit for allEC2Y 9AL: gigabit for allEC2Y 9AP: gigabit for allEC2Y 9AW: gigabit for allEC2Y 9BH: gigabit for allEC2Y 9HD: gigabit for allEC2Y 5EJ: some gigabitEC2Y 8DJ: some gigabitEC2Y 8DQ: some gigabitEC2Y 9AG: some gigabitEC2Y 9AN: some gigabitEC2Y 9AQ: some gigabitEC2Y 9DT: some gigabitEC2Y 8DA: no gigabitEC2Y 8DY: no gigabitEC2Y 9DB: no gigabit CripplegateAldersgate Map of every postcode in EC2Y, by gigabit broadband Of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 7 have some that can, 69 can all get it and 10 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: Cripplegate, Aldersgate. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CripplegateAldersgate
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 3
  • Some can get gigabit: 7
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 69
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 10

Of the 89 postcodes in EC2Y that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 7 have some that can, 69 can all get it and 10 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 51.5195, longitude -0.0935. 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

EC2Y 8DAEC2Y 8DYEC2Y 9DB

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

What do homes sell for in EC2Y?

Homes in EC2Y sold for a typical £825,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 57 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £866,000 from 88 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£825,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£866,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette £825,000 55 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 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

EC2V postcode district EC3A postcode district All EC districts City of London postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EC2Y 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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