WC1B 5 postcode sector in the WC1B district

WC1B 5 is a sector of the WC1B district: every postcode that starts WC1B 5. It has 42 postcodes in use, 13 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 WC1B 5 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the WC1B 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 42 postcodes in the WC1B 5 sector that ONS places, 42 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bloomsbury, Holborn & Covent Garden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A400 WC1B 5AA: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AB: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AD: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AE: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AF: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AG: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AH: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AN: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5AR: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BA: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BB: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BE: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BH: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BJ: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BL: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BP: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5BW: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5DA: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5DN: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5DP: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5DQ: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5DR: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5DT: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5EA: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5EG: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5EH: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5ER: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5HA: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5HJ: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5HP: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JA: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JD: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JE: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JH: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JR: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JS: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JT: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JU: not on the flood risk listWC1B 5JX: not on the flood risk list BloomsburyHolborn & Covent Garden Map of every postcode in the WC1B 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 42 postcodes in the WC1B 5 sector that ONS places, 42 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bloomsbury, Holborn & Covent Garden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. BloomsburyHolborn & Covent Garden
  • 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: 42

Of the 42 postcodes in the WC1B 5 sector that ONS places, 42 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

What do homes sell for in WC1B 5?

HM Land Registry records 2 sales of homes in WC1B 5 in the 12 months to August 2026: too few to give a typical price.

  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start WC1B 5. 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 WC1B 5

Pick a postcode to see its council and MP, broadband, flood risk, what homes sell for, council tax, the nearest schools and stations, and crime around it.

WC1B 5AAWC1B 5ABWC1B 5ADWC1B 5AEWC1B 5AFWC1B 5AGWC1B 5AHWC1B 5AJWC1B 5ANWC1B 5ARWC1B 5BAWC1B 5BBWC1B 5BEWC1B 5BHWC1B 5BJWC1B 5BLWC1B 5BPWC1B 5BWWC1B 5DAWC1B 5DNWC1B 5DPWC1B 5DQWC1B 5DRWC1B 5DTWC1B 5DUWC1B 5EAWC1B 5EGWC1B 5EHWC1B 5ERWC1B 5HAWC1B 5HJWC1B 5HPWC1B 5JAWC1B 5JDWC1B 5JEWC1B 5JHWC1B 5JPWC1B 5JRWC1B 5JSWC1B 5JTWC1B 5JUWC1B 5JX

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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