City of London

What is it like to live in City of London?

Homes sold for a typical £742,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 946 of the 1,282 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 49 of its 1,508 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is London Cannon Street, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in City of London?

Homes in City of London sold for a typical £742,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 96 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £795,000 from 158 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
• Flat or maisonette £742,500 94 sales

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in City of London: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in City of London?

71 of the 1,508 postcodes now in use in City of London came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 12 of the 158 homes sold in City of London were newly built (8%), HM Land Registry's records show.

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in City of London?

Ofcom reports on 1,282 of the 1,508 postcodes in City of London. At 946 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is City of London at risk of flooding?

49 of the 1,508 postcodes in City of London 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in City of London?

The open schools at the postcodes in City of London. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from City of London?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in City of London is London Cannon Street Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.

• London Cannon Street Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
• Moorgate Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
• City Thameslink Rail Station Railway station 800 mWalk
• Bank Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 250 mWalk
• Mansion House Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 300 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in City of London?

The GP practices at the postcodes in City of London. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• The Neaman Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 020 7600 9740 650 mWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is City of London safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 30,263 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in City of London 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: robbery 1,106, bicycle theft 944, vehicle crime 713, criminal damage and arson 636, other crime 141, possession of weapons 124.

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 each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs City of London?

Council

City of London

Parliamentary constituency

Cities of London and Westminster

Police force area

City of London

Region

London

Country

England

MP

Rachel Blake (Labour (Co-op))

All 1,508 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.