WC2B 5 postcode sector in the WC2B district

WC2B 5 is a sector of the WC2B district: every postcode that starts WC2B 5. It has 101 postcodes in use, 8 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 WC2B 5 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the WC2B 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 101 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Holborn & Covent Garden, St James's. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A401A301A4200A4 WC2B 5AA: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AB: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AD: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AE: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AJ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AN: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AP: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AY: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5AZ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5BB: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5BD: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5BH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5BL: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5BX: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5BZ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5DH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5DJ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EF: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EG: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EL: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EN: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EP: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5ER: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5ES: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EU: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EX: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5EZ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5HA: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5HF: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5HH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5HP: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5HZ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5JD: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5JF: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5JS: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5JT: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5JY: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5JZ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LA: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LB: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LE: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LL: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LQ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LR: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LT: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LW: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5LX: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NA: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NB: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5ND: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NE: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NF: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NG: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NJ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NN: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NR: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5NT: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PF: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PN: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PP: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PQ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PS: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PT: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PY: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5PZ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5QD: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5QF: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5QG: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5QH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5QN: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5QW: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5QZ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5RB: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5RE: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5RH: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5RR: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5RX: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SD: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SF: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SG: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SN: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SP: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SQ: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SR: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SS: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5SU: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5TA: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5TB: not on the flood risk listWC2B 5TD: not on the flood risk list Holborn & Covent GardenSt James's Map of every postcode in the WC2B 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 101 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Holborn & Covent Garden, St James's. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A301A4200 Holborn & Covent GardenSt James's
  • 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: 101

Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 101 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 WC2B 5?

HM Land Registry records 3 sales of homes in WC2B 5 in the 12 months to August 2026: too few to give a typical price.

  • Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start WC2B 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

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