WC1R 5 postcode sector in the WC1R district

WC1R 5 is a sector of the WC1R district: every postcode that starts WC1R 5. It has 29 postcodes in use, 3 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 WC1R 5 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the WC1R 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 29 postcodes in the WC1R 5 sector that ONS places, 29 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Holborn & Covent Garden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A201A40 WC1R 5AA: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5AH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5AT: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5AZ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5BH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5BN: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5BP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5DH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5DJ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5EF: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5ET: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5EU: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5EY: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5HH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5HP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5HT: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JD: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JH: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JR: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5JT: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LN: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LP: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LQ: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LR: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5LW: not on the flood risk listWC1R 5NR: not on the flood risk list Holborn & Covent Garden Map of every postcode in the WC1R 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 29 postcodes in the WC1R 5 sector that ONS places, 29 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Holborn & Covent Garden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A40 Holborn & 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: 29

Of the 29 postcodes in the WC1R 5 sector that ONS places, 29 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 WC1R 5?

HM Land Registry records one sale of homes in WC1R 5 in the 12 months to August 2026: too few to give a typical price.

  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start WC1R 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 WC1R 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.

WC1R 5AAWC1R 5AHWC1R 5ATWC1R 5AZWC1R 5BHWC1R 5BNWC1R 5BPWC1R 5BQWC1R 5DHWC1R 5DJWC1R 5EFWC1R 5ETWC1R 5EUWC1R 5EYWC1R 5HHWC1R 5HPWC1R 5HTWC1R 5JDWC1R 5JHWC1R 5JPWC1R 5JRWC1R 5JTWC1R 5LNWC1R 5LPWC1R 5LQWC1R 5LRWC1R 5LWWC1R 5NRWC1R 5NT

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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