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, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in SW1E, by new since 2020 Of the 87 postcodes in SW1E that ONS places, 4 are new since 2020 and 83 were in use before 2020. 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: before 2020SW1E 5BJ: before 2020SW1E 5BP: before 2020SW1E 5BW: before 2020SW1E 5BX: before 2020SW1E 5BY: before 2020SW1E 5DH: before 2020SW1E 5DJ: before 2020SW1E 5EA: before 2020SW1E 5ER: before 2020SW1E 5HJ: before 2020SW1E 5HL: before 2020SW1E 5HN: before 2020SW1E 5HS: before 2020SW1E 5HW: before 2020SW1E 5HX: before 2020SW1E 5HY: before 2020SW1E 5HZ: before 2020SW1E 5JA: before 2020SW1E 5JD: before 2020SW1E 5JE: before 2020SW1E 5JH: before 2020SW1E 5JL: before 2020SW1E 5JQ: before 2020SW1E 5LA: before 2020SW1E 5LB: before 2020SW1E 5NA: before 2020SW1E 5ND: before 2020SW1E 5NE: before 2020SW1E 5NH: before 2020SW1E 6AA: before 2020SW1E 6AE: before 2020SW1E 6AF: before 2020SW1E 6AJ: before 2020SW1E 6AL: before 2020SW1E 6AN: before 2020SW1E 6AS: before 2020SW1E 6AU: before 2020SW1E 6AY: before 2020SW1E 6AZ: before 2020SW1E 6BS: before 2020SW1E 6DE: before 2020SW1E 6DR: before 2020SW1E 6DU: before 2020SW1E 6DX: before 2020SW1E 6DY: before 2020SW1E 6HF: before 2020SW1E 6HL: before 2020SW1E 6HQ: before 2020SW1E 6HR: before 2020SW1E 6HX: before 2020SW1E 6JP: before 2020SW1E 6LA: before 2020SW1E 6LB: before 2020SW1E 6NF: before 2020SW1E 6NL: before 2020SW1E 6NN: before 2020SW1E 6NP: before 2020SW1E 6NR: before 2020SW1E 6PA: before 2020SW1E 6PB: before 2020SW1E 6PD: before 2020SW1E 6PE: before 2020SW1E 6PH: before 2020SW1E 6PL: before 2020SW1E 6PR: before 2020SW1E 6QP: before 2020SW1E 6QT: before 2020SW1E 6QW: before 2020SW1E 6RA: before 2020SW1E 6RD: before 2020SW1E 6SA: before 2020SW1E 6SQ: before 2020SW1E 5DX: new since 2020SW1E 6BF: new since 2020 St James's Map of every postcode in SW1E, by new since 2020 Of the 87 postcodes in SW1E that ONS places, 4 are new since 2020 and 83 were in use before 2020. 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
  • New since 2020: 4
  • In use before 2020: 83

Of the 87 postcodes in SW1E that ONS places, 4 are new since 2020 and 83 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. 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; 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 4 newest postcodes

SW1E 6BFNovember 2025SW1E 6BHNovember 2025SW1E 6BGApril 2024SW1E 5DXJuly 2020

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.

SW1E 5XH

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.

SW1E 534 postcodesSW1E 653 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in SW1E

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

City of Westminster postcodes,86Wandsworth postcodes,1

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

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

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