EC3A postcode district: City of London and around

EC3A is a postcode district in England, with 66 postcodes in use in 8 sectors. It has postcodes in City of London and Islington. It is split between 2 councils: City of London (64 postcodes) and Islington (2).

Postcodes in use
66
Sectors
8
Councils
2 councils
Places
2 places

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

Every postcode in EC3A, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in EC3A, by gigabit broadband Of the 66 postcodes in EC3A that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 7 have some that can, 41 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. A201 EC3A 2AA: no Ofcom figureEC3A 3AA: no Ofcom figureEC3A 5AG: no Ofcom figureEC3A 7AG: no Ofcom figureEC3A 8AE: no Ofcom figureEC3A 8BG: no Ofcom figureEC3A 8BY: no Ofcom figureEC3A 1AT: gigabit for allEC3A 3DE: gigabit for allEC3A 3DH: gigabit for allEC3A 4AF: gigabit for allEC3A 5AF: gigabit for allEC3A 5AR: gigabit for allEC3A 5AT: gigabit for allEC3A 5AW: gigabit for allEC3A 5AX: gigabit for allEC3A 5BU: gigabit for allEC3A 5DE: gigabit for allEC3A 5DH: gigabit for allEC3A 5DQ: gigabit for allEC3A 5EB: gigabit for allEC3A 5EH: gigabit for allEC3A 6AB: gigabit for allEC3A 6AE: gigabit for allEC3A 6AP: gigabit for allEC3A 6DE: gigabit for allEC3A 6DG: gigabit for allEC3A 7AB: gigabit for allEC3A 7BA: gigabit for allEC3A 7BD: gigabit for allEC3A 7BT: gigabit for allEC3A 7BX: gigabit for allEC3A 7DB: gigabit for allEC3A 7DH: gigabit for allEC3A 7JA: gigabit for allEC3A 7JB: gigabit for allEC3A 7LH: gigabit for allEC3A 7LL: gigabit for allEC3A 7LN: gigabit for allEC3A 7LP: gigabit for allEC3A 8AA: gigabit for allEC3A 8AH: gigabit for allEC3A 8AL: gigabit for allEC3A 8BE: gigabit for allEC3A 8BF: gigabit for allEC3A 8EE: gigabit for allEC3A 8FR: gigabit for allEC3A 7DT: gigabit for allEC3A 2AD: some gigabitEC3A 2BG: some gigabitEC3A 2BJ: some gigabitEC3A 3BP: some gigabitEC3A 4AA: some gigabitEC3A 5AY: some gigabitEC3A 5BZ: some gigabitEC3A 6AT: no gigabitEC3A 8AQ: no gigabitEC3A 8BN: no gigabit City of London Map of every postcode in EC3A, by gigabit broadband Of the 66 postcodes in EC3A that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 7 have some that can, 41 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. A10A201A5201 City of London
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 3
  • Some can get gigabit: 7
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 41
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 15

Of the 66 postcodes in EC3A that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 7 have some that can, 41 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 51.5148, longitude -0.0803. 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

EC3A 6ATEC3A 8AQEC3A 8BN

What broadband can you get in EC3A?

Ofcom reports on 51 of the 66 postcodes in EC3A. At 41 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit41 of 51
Postcodes where every home can get superfast41 of 51

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 EC3A at risk of flooding?

None of the 66 postcodes in EC3A 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 EC3A?

HM Land Registry records 2 sales of homes in EC3A in the 12 months to August 2026: too few to give a typical price.

  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

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.

Postcodes in EC3A

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

EC3A 11 postcodeEC3A 24 postcodesEC3A 34 postcodesEC3A 42 postcodesEC3A 514 postcodesEC3A 66 postcodesEC3A 720 postcodesEC3A 815 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in EC3A

Towns and villages with postcodes in EC3A, and how many each has here.

City of London postcodes,64Islington postcodes,2

Who covers EC3A

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 Westminster64
  • Islington South and Finsbury2

Police force areas

  • City of London64
  • Metropolitan Police2

Next to EC3A

EC2Y postcode district EC3M postcode district All EC districts City of London postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EC3A 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.

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.

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