WC1R postcode district: Camden and around

WC1R is a postcode district in England, with 79 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Camden. Its council is Camden.

Postcodes in use
79
Sectors
2
Council
Camden
Places
Camden

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

Every postcode in WC1R, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in WC1R, by flood risk Of the 79 postcodes in WC1R that ONS places, 79 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Holborn & Covent Garden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A4200A40 WC1R 4AB: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4AJ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4AP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4AQ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4AT: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4AX: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4AY: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4AZ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BB: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BD: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BE: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BG: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BN: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BS: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BU: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BW: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4BX: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4EB: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4EE: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4EF: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4EH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4EQ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4FS: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4HD: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4HE: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4HQ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4JH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4LL: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4LR: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4NA: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4NY: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4PA: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4PD: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4PF: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4PN: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4PS: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4PZ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4QF: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4QG: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4QH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4QR: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4RA: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4RB: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4RE: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4RG: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4RH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4RL: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4SE: not on the flood risk listWC1R 4SG: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5AA: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5AH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5AT: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5AZ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5BH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5BN: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5BP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5DH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5DJ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5EF: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5ET: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5EU: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5EY: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5HH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5HP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5HT: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JD: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JR: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JT: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LN: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LQ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LR: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LW: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5NR: not on the flood risk list Holborn & Covent Garden Map of every postcode in WC1R, by flood risk Of the 79 postcodes in WC1R that ONS places, 79 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Holborn & Covent Garden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Holborn & Covent Garden
  • 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: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 79

Of the 79 postcodes in WC1R that ONS places, 79 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 51.5196, longitude -0.1158. 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

What broadband can you get in WC1R?

Ofcom reports on 76 of the 79 postcodes in WC1R. At 65 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit65 of 76
Postcodes where every home can get superfast65 of 76

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 WC1R at risk of flooding?

None of the 79 postcodes in WC1R 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 WC1R?

Homes in WC1R sold for a typical £925,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 6 sales, down 15.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£925,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£1,095,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 15.5% on the 12 months before
  • Flat or maisonette £925,000 6 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 WC1R

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

WC1R 450 postcodesWC1R 529 postcodes
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Places in WC1R

Towns and villages with postcodes in WC1R, and how many each has here.

Camden postcodes,79

Who covers WC1R

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

  • Holborn and St Pancras79

Police force areas

  • Metropolitan Police79

Next to WC1R

WC1N postcode district WC1V postcode district All WC districts Camden postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after WC1R in the WC area.

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