City of Westminster
City of Westminster is covered by postcode districts NW8, W1F, W1G, W1K, W1U, W2 and 30 more. It is mostly in the Westminster council area: 12,930 of its 12,994 postcodes. The others are in Kensington and Chelsea and Camden.
Every postcode in City of Westminster, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 643
- Some can get gigabit: 1,345
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 10,195
- Ofcom gives no figure: 811
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 12,994 postcodes in City of Westminster that ONS places, 643 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 1,345 have some that can, 10,195 can all get it and 811 have no Ofcom figure.
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. 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 51.5134, longitude -0.1520. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
Postcodes without gigabit
643 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 111 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. W1U 3HD, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 67 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. W1F 0JA, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 67 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. W1J 5BJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 30 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SW1W 8SR, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 26 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. W1G 8LT, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 24 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SW1V 1TJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What is it like to live in City of Westminster?
Homes sold for a typical £790,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, down 14.1% on the 12 months before. At 10,195 of the 12,183 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 15 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 881 of its 12,994 postcodes. It has at least 44 primary schools, 21 secondary schools and 4 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bond Street, 350 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 Westminster?
Homes in City of Westminster sold for a typical £790,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,413 sales, down 14.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £4,698,000 12 sales
- Semi-detached £4,612,500 14 sales
- Terraced £2,010,000 158 sales
- Flat or maisonette £725,000 1,229 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole W1U district, City of Westminster's main postcode district: a typical £1,250,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in City of Westminster: 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 Westminster?
297 of the 12,994 postcodes now in use in City of Westminster came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 102 of the 2,327 homes sold in City of Westminster were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the W1U district, 25%.
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 City of Westminster | Across the W1U district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 19 of 1,413 (1%) | 3 of 39 (8%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 102 of 2,327 (4%) | 23 of 93 (25%) |
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 Westminster?
Ofcom reports on 12,183 of the 12,994 postcodes in City of Westminster. At 10,195 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is City of Westminster at risk of flooding?
881 of the 12,994 postcodes in City of Westminster 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 15 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 Westminster?
The open schools at the postcodes in City of Westminster (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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- St George's Hanover Square CofE Primary School500 m 73 pupils, 210 places
- St Vincent's Catholic Primary School600 m
- Queen's College, London650 m 412 pupils, 670 places
- Wetherby Preparatory School750 m 255 pupils, 450 places
- Connaught House School850 m 66 pupils, 76 places
- Eifa International School900 m 111 pupils, 165 places
- Hampden Gurney CofE Primary School900 m 225 pupils, 240 places
- ICS London950 m 139 pupils, 380 places
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from City of Westminster?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in City of Westminster is Bond Street, 350 m away in a straight line.
- Bond Street Railway station 350 mWalk
- London Marylebone Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
- Tottenham Court Road Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
- Bond Street Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 200 mWalk
- Marble Arch 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in City of Westminster?
The GP practices at the postcodes in City of Westminster, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Mayfair Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2025 · Phone 020 7493 1647 150 mWalk
- Connaught Square Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2026 · Phone 020 7402 4026 850 mWalk
- Crawford Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2024 · Phone 020 7723 6324 900 mWalk
- Cavendish Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2025 · Phone 020 7487 5244 1.1 kmWalk
- Marylebone Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7935 6328 1.1 kmWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is City of Westminster safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 51,407 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in City of Westminster 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
- 4,201 September 2025
- 4,577 October 2025
- 5,607 November 2025
- 5,708 December 2025
- 4,069 January 2026
- 3,832 February 2026
- 3,725 March 2026
- 4,020 April 2026
- 3,813 May 2026
- 3,859 June 2026
- 4,269 July 2026
- 3,727 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 1,455, burglary 1,252, criminal damage and arson 677, bicycle theft 470, other crime 284, possession of weapons 194.
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.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs City of Westminster?
- Councils
- Westminster (12,930), Kensington and Chelsea (63) and Camden (1)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Cities of London and Westminster (11,311), Queen's Park and Maida Vale (1,108), Kensington and Bayswater (569) and 2 others
- Police force area
- Metropolitan Police
- 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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to City of Westminster
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of City of Westminster is in the Westminster council area; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Westminster about council tax Council tax, on westminster.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in City of Westminster
- 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 Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
City of Westminster postcodes
12,994 postcodes in use in City of Westminster, by district:
Those districts are in the W postcode area, NW postcode area, SW postcode area and WC postcode area.
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Places near City of Westminster
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside City of Westminster's £790,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about City of Westminster
- What is the postcode for City of Westminster?
- Postcode districts NW8, W1F, W1G, W1K, W1U, W2 and 30 more, with 12,994 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in City of Westminster?
- A typical £790,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 1,413 sales, down 14.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in City of Westminster?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St George's Hanover Square CofE Primary School, St Vincent's Catholic Primary School and Queen's College, London; secondary schools at its postcodes include Wetherby Senior School, Queen's College, London and Halcyon London International School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does City of Westminster have a railway station?
- Yes: Bond Street station, 350 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in City of Westminster?
- Ofcom reports on 12,183 of the 12,994 postcodes in City of Westminster. At 10,195 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is City of Westminster at risk of flooding?
- 881 of the 12,994 postcodes in City of Westminster 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 15 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in City of Westminster?
- 297 of the 12,994 postcodes now in use in City of Westminster came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 102 of the 2,327 homes sold in City of Westminster were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the W1U district, 25%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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