SW3 postcode district: Kensington and Chelsea and around

SW3 is a postcode district in England, with 868 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth and City of Westminster. It is split between 3 councils: Kensington and Chelsea (836 postcodes), Lambeth (26) and Westminster (6).

Postcodes in use: 868
Sectors: 7
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 3 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in SW3, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 29
In use before 2020: 839
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 868 postcodes in SW3 that ONS places, 29 are new since 2020 and 839 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 150 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 51.4894, longitude -0.1659. 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

SW3 9HQJuly 2026 SW3 9HPJune 2026 SW3 9HNMay 2026 SW3 9HHJanuary 2026 SW3 1ADNovember 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

15 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. SW3 9HQ, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in SW3?

Ofcom reports on 829 of the 868 postcodes in SW3. At 681 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit681 of 829

Postcodes where every home can get superfast785 of 829

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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is SW3 at risk of flooding?

46 of the 868 postcodes in SW3 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 10 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 46 of 868 postcodes High: 10Very low: 768

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 SW3?

Homes in SW3 sold for a typical £1,150,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 198 sales, down 23.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£1,150,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£1,500,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 23.3% on the 12 months before

Detached 1 sale, too few to price
Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
Terraced £3,700,000 51 sales
Flat or maisonette £925,000 142 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

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