NW1W postcode district: Camden and around
NW1W is a postcode district in England, with 1,163 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Camden. Its council is Camden. ONS gives no location for 129 of its postcodes, and so no council.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Every postcode in NW1W, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 22
- In use before 2020: 1,012
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,034 postcodes in NW1W that ONS places, 22 are new since 2020 and 1,012 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 600 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 51.5308, longitude -0.1354. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 22 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NW1W 7WQ, is the newest of them.
What broadband can you get in NW1W?
Ofcom reports on 1 of the 1,163 postcodes in NW1W. At none of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is NW1W at risk of flooding?
None of the 1,163 postcodes in NW1W 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
Postcodes in NW1W
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in NW1W
Towns and villages with postcodes in NW1W, and how many each has here.
Who covers NW1W
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Camden1,034
Constituencies
- Holborn and St Pancras1,034
Police force areas
- Metropolitan Police1,034
Next to NW1W
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after NW1W in the NW area.
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