SW1E postcode district: City of Westminster and around

SW1E is a postcode district in England, with 87 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in City of Westminster and Wandsworth. It is split between 2 councils: Westminster (86 postcodes) and Wandsworth (1).

Postcodes in use
87
Sectors
2
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 SW1E, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in SW1E, by flood risk Of the 87 postcodes in SW1E that ONS places, 33 are at very low risk only and 54 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: St James's. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A302A3214 SW1E 5BA: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5BJ: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5BP: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5BW: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5DH: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5DX: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5EA: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5ER: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5HL: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5HN: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5HS: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5HW: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5HX: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5HY: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5HZ: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5JA: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5JD: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5JE: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5JH: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5JQ: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5NA: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6AL: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6AN: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6AY: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6AZ: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6BF: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6DE: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6DU: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6DX: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6HF: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6HR: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6HX: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6JP: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6LA: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6NL: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6NP: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6NR: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6PH: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6PL: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6QP: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6RA: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6RD: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6SA: not on the flood risk listSW1E 6SQ: not on the flood risk listSW1E 5BX: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5BY: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5DJ: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5HJ: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5JL: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5LA: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5LB: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5ND: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5NE: very low flood risk onlySW1E 5NH: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6AA: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6AE: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6AF: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6AJ: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6AS: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6AU: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6BS: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6DR: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6DY: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6HL: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6HQ: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6LB: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6NF: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6NN: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6PA: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6PB: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6PD: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6PE: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6PR: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6QT: very low flood risk onlySW1E 6QW: very low flood risk only St James's Map of every postcode in SW1E, by flood risk Of the 87 postcodes in SW1E that ONS places, 33 are at very low risk only and 54 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: St James's. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. St James's
  • 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: 33
  • Not on the at-risk list: 54

Of the 87 postcodes in SW1E that ONS places, 33 are at very low risk only and 54 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 51.4981, longitude -0.1398. 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

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

What broadband can you get in SW1E?

Ofcom reports on 75 of the 87 postcodes in SW1E. At 58 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit58 of 75
Postcodes where every home can get superfast61 of 75

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 SW1E at risk of flooding?

33 of the 87 postcodes in SW1E have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 33 of 87 postcodes Very low: 574

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

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 SW1E?

Homes in SW1E sold for a typical £887,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 8 sales, down 44.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£887,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£1,600,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 44.5% on the 12 months before
  • Flat or maisonette £887,500 8 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 SW1E

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

UK postcode format explained

Places in SW1E

Towns and villages with postcodes in SW1E, and how many each has here.

Who covers SW1E

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 Westminster86
  • Battersea1

Police force areas

  • Metropolitan Police87

Next to SW1E

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after SW1E in the SW area.

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