EC2Y 8 postcode sector in the EC2Y district

EC2Y 8 is a sector of the EC2Y district: every postcode that starts EC2Y 8. It has 51 postcodes in use, 5 of them large-user postcodes. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.

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Every postcode in the EC2Y 8 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the EC2Y 8 sector, by flood risk Of the 51 postcodes in the EC2Y 8 sector that ONS places, 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Cripplegate, Aldersgate. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A1A1211 EC2Y 8AA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AE: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AF: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AG: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AH: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AT: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8AX: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BB: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BE: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BH: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BJ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BL: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BP: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BT: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BX: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8BY: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DE: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DH: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DJ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DL: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DP: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DQ: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DR: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DS: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DT: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DU: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DX: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8DY: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8EA: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8EN: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8HD: not on the flood risk listEC2Y 8HQ: not on the flood risk list CripplegateAldersgate Map of every postcode in the EC2Y 8 sector, by flood risk Of the 51 postcodes in the EC2Y 8 sector that ONS places, 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Cripplegate, Aldersgate. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A1211 CripplegateAldersgate
  • 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: 51

Of the 51 postcodes in the EC2Y 8 sector that ONS places, 51 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.

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

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

EC2Y 8ZB

What do homes sell for in EC2Y 8?

Homes in EC2Y 8 sold for a typical £835,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 49 sales, down 8.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£835,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£910,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 8.2% on the 12 months before
  • Terraced 1 sale, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette £830,000 48 sales

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start EC2Y 8. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.

How we work this out: house prices by postcode

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 EC2Y 8

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EC2Y 8AAEC2Y 8ADEC2Y 8AEEC2Y 8AFEC2Y 8AGEC2Y 8AHEC2Y 8ATEC2Y 8AUEC2Y 8AXEC2Y 8AYEC2Y 8BAEC2Y 8BBEC2Y 8BDEC2Y 8BEEC2Y 8BHEC2Y 8BJEC2Y 8BLEC2Y 8BNEC2Y 8BPEC2Y 8BTEC2Y 8BUEC2Y 8BXEC2Y 8BYEC2Y 8DAEC2Y 8DDEC2Y 8DEEC2Y 8DHEC2Y 8DJEC2Y 8DLEC2Y 8DNEC2Y 8DPEC2Y 8DQEC2Y 8DREC2Y 8DSEC2Y 8DTEC2Y 8DUEC2Y 8DXEC2Y 8DYEC2Y 8EAEC2Y 8ENEC2Y 8HDEC2Y 8HQEC2Y 8NAEC2Y 8NBEC2Y 8NDEC2Y 8NEEC2Y 8NHEC2Y 8NJEC2Y 8NQEC2Y 8PQEC2Y 8ZB

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed. See all our data sources

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