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 gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in the WC1R 5 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 29 postcodes in the WC1R 5 sector that ONS places, 9 have some that can, 19 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: Holborn & Covent Garden. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A201A40 WC1R 5AT: gigabit for allWC1R 5AZ: gigabit for allWC1R 5BH: gigabit for allWC1R 5BN: gigabit for allWC1R 5BP: gigabit for allWC1R 5DH: gigabit for allWC1R 5ET: gigabit for allWC1R 5EY: gigabit for allWC1R 5HT: gigabit for allWC1R 5JH: gigabit for allWC1R 5JP: gigabit for allWC1R 5JT: gigabit for allWC1R 5LN: gigabit for allWC1R 5LP: gigabit for allWC1R 5LQ: gigabit for allWC1R 5LR: gigabit for allWC1R 5LW: gigabit for allWC1R 5NR: gigabit for allWC1R 5AA: some gigabitWC1R 5AH: some gigabitWC1R 5DJ: some gigabitWC1R 5EF: some gigabitWC1R 5EU: some gigabitWC1R 5HH: some gigabitWC1R 5HP: some gigabitWC1R 5JD: some gigabitWC1R 5JR: some gigabit Holborn & Covent Garden Map of every postcode in the WC1R 5 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 29 postcodes in the WC1R 5 sector that ONS places, 9 have some that can, 19 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. 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
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 0
  • Some can get gigabit: 9
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 19
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 1

Of the 29 postcodes in the WC1R 5 sector that ONS places, 9 have some that can, 19 can all get it and 1 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. 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.

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.

What do homes sell for in WC1R 5?

HM Land Registry records one sale of homes in WC1R 5 in the 12 months to September 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 October 2026.

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed.

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Where the facts on this page come from

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.

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