City of Westminster

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

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.

Source: 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.

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

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.

Source: 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.