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 gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in the WC2B 5 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 8 have some that can, 87 can all get it and 4 have no Ofcom figure. 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 5DJ: no Ofcom figureWC2B 5QW: no Ofcom figureWC2B 5AA: gigabit for allWC2B 5AB: gigabit for allWC2B 5AD: gigabit for allWC2B 5AE: gigabit for allWC2B 5AJ: gigabit for allWC2B 5AN: gigabit for allWC2B 5AP: gigabit for allWC2B 5AY: gigabit for allWC2B 5AZ: gigabit for allWC2B 5BB: gigabit for allWC2B 5BD: gigabit for allWC2B 5BH: gigabit for allWC2B 5BL: gigabit for allWC2B 5BX: gigabit for allWC2B 5BZ: gigabit for allWC2B 5DH: gigabit for allWC2B 5EF: gigabit for allWC2B 5EG: gigabit for allWC2B 5EL: gigabit for allWC2B 5EN: gigabit for allWC2B 5EP: gigabit for allWC2B 5ER: gigabit for allWC2B 5ES: gigabit for allWC2B 5EU: gigabit for allWC2B 5EX: gigabit for allWC2B 5EZ: gigabit for allWC2B 5HH: gigabit for allWC2B 5HP: gigabit for allWC2B 5JD: gigabit for allWC2B 5JF: gigabit for allWC2B 5JS: gigabit for allWC2B 5JT: gigabit for allWC2B 5JY: gigabit for allWC2B 5JZ: gigabit for allWC2B 5LA: gigabit for allWC2B 5LB: gigabit for allWC2B 5LE: gigabit for allWC2B 5LL: gigabit for allWC2B 5LQ: gigabit for allWC2B 5LR: gigabit for allWC2B 5LT: gigabit for allWC2B 5LW: gigabit for allWC2B 5LX: gigabit for allWC2B 5NA: gigabit for allWC2B 5NB: gigabit for allWC2B 5ND: gigabit for allWC2B 5NE: gigabit for allWC2B 5NF: gigabit for allWC2B 5NG: gigabit for allWC2B 5NH: gigabit for allWC2B 5NJ: gigabit for allWC2B 5NN: gigabit for allWC2B 5NR: gigabit for allWC2B 5NT: gigabit for allWC2B 5PF: gigabit for allWC2B 5PH: gigabit for allWC2B 5PN: gigabit for allWC2B 5PP: gigabit for allWC2B 5PQ: gigabit for allWC2B 5PS: gigabit for allWC2B 5PT: gigabit for allWC2B 5PZ: gigabit for allWC2B 5QD: gigabit for allWC2B 5QF: gigabit for allWC2B 5QG: gigabit for allWC2B 5RB: gigabit for allWC2B 5RE: gigabit for allWC2B 5RX: gigabit for allWC2B 5SD: gigabit for allWC2B 5SF: gigabit for allWC2B 5SG: gigabit for allWC2B 5SN: gigabit for allWC2B 5SP: gigabit for allWC2B 5SQ: gigabit for allWC2B 5SS: gigabit for allWC2B 5SU: gigabit for allWC2B 5TA: gigabit for allWC2B 5TB: gigabit for allWC2B 5TD: gigabit for allWC2B 5DG: gigabit for allWC2B 5HA: some gigabitWC2B 5HF: some gigabitWC2B 5HZ: some gigabitWC2B 5PY: some gigabitWC2B 5QN: some gigabitWC2B 5QZ: some gigabitWC2B 5RH: some gigabitWC2B 5RR: some gigabitWC2B 5QH: no gigabitWC2B 5SR: no gigabit Holborn & Covent GardenSt James's Map of every postcode in the WC2B 5 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 8 have some that can, 87 can all get it and 4 have no Ofcom figure. 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
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 2
  • Some can get gigabit: 8
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 87
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 4

Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 8 have some that can, 87 can all get it and 4 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.

Postcodes without gigabit

What do homes sell for in WC2B 5?

HM Land Registry records 3 sales of homes in WC2B 5 in the 12 months to September 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 October 2026.

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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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