W8 postcode district: Kensington and Chelsea and around

W8 is a postcode district in England, with 688 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Kensington and Chelsea. Its council is Kensington and Chelsea.

Postcodes in use: 688
Sectors: 5
Council: Kensington and Chelsea
Places: Kensington and Chelsea

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

Every postcode in W8, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 8
In use before 2020: 680
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 688 postcodes in W8 that ONS places, 8 are new since 2020 and 680 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 51.5012, longitude -0.1943. 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

W8 9FQSeptember 2025 W8 9LLSeptember 2025 W8 7DZMay 2025 W8 7AQNovember 2024 W8 6NBJuly 2024

Where the new postcodes lie together

5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. W8 9FQ, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in W8?

Ofcom reports on 631 of the 688 postcodes in W8. At 512 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit512 of 631

Postcodes where every home can get superfast584 of 631

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 W8 at risk of flooding?

None of the 688 postcodes in W8 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

What do homes sell for in W8?

Homes in W8 sold for a typical £1,275,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 160 sales, down 24% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£1,275,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£1,677,500 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 24% on the 12 months before

Detached 3 sales, too few to price
Semi-detached 1 sale, too few to price
Terraced £3,775,000 26 sales
Flat or maisonette £965,000 130 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