Camden
Camden is covered by postcode districts NW1, NW3, NW5, NW6, W1T, WC1H and 28 more. It is mostly in the Camden council area: 8,129 of its 8,268 postcodes. The others are in Westminster, Islington and City of London.
Every postcode in Camden, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 319
- In use before 2020: 7,949
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 8,268 postcodes in Camden that ONS places, 319 are new since 2020 and 7,949 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.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.5363, longitude -0.1455. 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
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 115 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NW5 9AF, is the newest of them.
- 27 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NW3 9GB, is the newest of them.
- 22 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NW1 6HX, is the newest of them.
- 20 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. W1T 4DL, is the newest of them.
- 17 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. N1C 4EW, is the newest of them.
- 14 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. NW1 8RB, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Camden?
Homes sold for a typical £730,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 7.1% on the 12 months before. At 5,650 of the 6,458 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 8,268 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Camden Road, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Camden?
Homes in Camden sold for a typical £730,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,337 sales, down 7.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £4,400,000 17 sales
- Semi-detached £2,810,000 47 sales
- Terraced £1,576,000 153 sales
- Flat or maisonette £650,000 1,120 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole NW1 district, Camden's main postcode district: a typical £685,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Camden: 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
Are new homes being built in Camden?
319 of the 8,268 postcodes now in use in Camden came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 160 of the 2,231 homes sold in Camden were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NW1 district, 9%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Camden | Across the NW1 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 26 of 1,337 (2%) | 16 of 249 (6%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 160 of 2,231 (7%) | 37 of 430 (9%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Camden?
Ofcom reports on 6,458 of the 8,268 postcodes in Camden. At 5,650 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Camden at risk of flooding?
2 of the 8,268 postcodes in Camden 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.
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
Which schools are in Camden?
The open schools at the postcodes in Camden (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Alleyn's Regent's Park100 m 292 pupils, 486 places
- The Cavendish School350 m 194 pupils, 276 places
- Primrose Hill School550 m 414 pupils, 483 places
- Christ Church School600 m 171 pupils, 210 places
- Our Lady Roman Catholic Primary School650 m 200 pupils, 240 places
- Richard Cobden Primary School650 m 379 pupils, 420 places
- Hawley Primary School700 m 220 pupils, 236 places
- St Mary and St Pancras Church of England Primary School900 m 178 pupils, 236 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Camden?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Camden is Camden Road Rail Station, 750 m away in a straight line.
- Camden Road Rail Station Railway station 750 mWalk
- Kentish Town West Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
- London Euston Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
- Camden Town Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 400 mWalk
- Mornington Crescent Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 500 mWalk
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Camden?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Camden, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Ampthill & Regents Park Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7383 7333 600 mWalk
- Primrose Hill Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2024 · Phone 020 7722 0038 1.0 kmWalk
- Camden Health Improvement Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3182 4200 1.0 kmWalk
- Prince of Wales Group Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Inadequate CQC report April 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7267 0067 1.2 kmWalk
- James Wigg Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2023 · Phone 020 7428 4555 1.2 kmWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Camden safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 18,783 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Camden over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 1,698 September 2025
- 1,613 October 2025
- 1,523 November 2025
- 1,523 December 2025
- 1,346 January 2026
- 1,319 February 2026
- 1,602 March 2026
- 1,522 April 2026
- 1,653 May 2026
- 1,647 June 2026
- 1,721 July 2026
- 1,616 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 661, robbery 610, criminal damage and arson 445, bicycle theft 372, other crime 150, possession of weapons 79.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Camden?
- Councils
- Camden (8,129), Westminster (100), Islington (20) and 1 other
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Holborn and St Pancras (5,763), Hampstead and Highgate (2,366), Cities of London and Westminster (119) and 2 others
- Police force areas
- Metropolitan Police (8,249) and City of London (19)
- Region
- London
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Camden
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Camden is in Camden; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Camden about council tax Council tax, on camden.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Camden
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Camden postcodes
8,268 postcodes in use in Camden, by district:
Those districts are in the NW postcode area, W postcode area, WC postcode area, EC postcode area and N postcode area.
Check a Camden postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Camden
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Camden's £730,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Camden
- What is it like to live in Camden?
- Homes sold for a typical £730,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 7.1% on the 12 months before. At 5,650 of the 6,458 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 8,268 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Camden Road, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Camden?
- Camden is covered by postcode districts NW1, NW3, NW5, NW6, W1T, WC1H and 28 more, across 8,268 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Camden?
- Homes in Camden sold for a typical £730,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,337 sales, down 7.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Camden?
- In Camden, primary schools at its postcodes include Alleyn's Regent's Park, The Cavendish School and Primrose Hill School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Harmood School, Regent High School and Haverstock School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Camden have a railway station?
- Yes: Camden Road is 750 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Camden, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Camden?
- Ofcom reports on 6,458 of the 8,268 postcodes in Camden. At 5,650 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Camden at risk of flooding?
- 2 of the 8,268 postcodes in Camden 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. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Camden?
- 319 of the 8,268 postcodes now in use in Camden came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 160 of the 2,231 homes sold in Camden were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NW1 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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