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, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in the WC2B 5 sector, by new since 2020 Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 99 were in use before 2020. 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: before 2020WC2B 5AB: before 2020WC2B 5AD: before 2020WC2B 5AE: before 2020WC2B 5AH: before 2020WC2B 5AJ: before 2020WC2B 5AN: before 2020WC2B 5AP: before 2020WC2B 5AY: before 2020WC2B 5AZ: before 2020WC2B 5BB: before 2020WC2B 5BD: before 2020WC2B 5BH: before 2020WC2B 5BL: before 2020WC2B 5BZ: before 2020WC2B 5DH: before 2020WC2B 5DJ: before 2020WC2B 5EF: before 2020WC2B 5EG: before 2020WC2B 5EL: before 2020WC2B 5EN: before 2020WC2B 5EP: before 2020WC2B 5ER: before 2020WC2B 5ES: before 2020WC2B 5EU: before 2020WC2B 5EX: before 2020WC2B 5EZ: before 2020WC2B 5HA: before 2020WC2B 5HF: before 2020WC2B 5HH: before 2020WC2B 5HP: before 2020WC2B 5HZ: before 2020WC2B 5JD: before 2020WC2B 5JF: before 2020WC2B 5JS: before 2020WC2B 5JT: before 2020WC2B 5JY: before 2020WC2B 5JZ: before 2020WC2B 5LA: before 2020WC2B 5LB: before 2020WC2B 5LE: before 2020WC2B 5LL: before 2020WC2B 5LQ: before 2020WC2B 5LR: before 2020WC2B 5LT: before 2020WC2B 5LW: before 2020WC2B 5LX: before 2020WC2B 5NA: before 2020WC2B 5NB: before 2020WC2B 5ND: before 2020WC2B 5NE: before 2020WC2B 5NF: before 2020WC2B 5NG: before 2020WC2B 5NH: before 2020WC2B 5NJ: before 2020WC2B 5NN: before 2020WC2B 5NR: before 2020WC2B 5NT: before 2020WC2B 5PF: before 2020WC2B 5PH: before 2020WC2B 5PN: before 2020WC2B 5PP: before 2020WC2B 5PQ: before 2020WC2B 5PS: before 2020WC2B 5PT: before 2020WC2B 5PY: before 2020WC2B 5PZ: before 2020WC2B 5QD: before 2020WC2B 5QF: before 2020WC2B 5QG: before 2020WC2B 5QH: before 2020WC2B 5QN: before 2020WC2B 5QZ: before 2020WC2B 5RB: before 2020WC2B 5RE: before 2020WC2B 5RH: before 2020WC2B 5RR: before 2020WC2B 5RX: before 2020WC2B 5SD: before 2020WC2B 5SF: before 2020WC2B 5SG: before 2020WC2B 5SN: before 2020WC2B 5SP: before 2020WC2B 5SQ: before 2020WC2B 5SR: before 2020WC2B 5SS: before 2020WC2B 5SU: before 2020WC2B 5TA: before 2020WC2B 5TB: before 2020WC2B 5TD: before 2020WC2B 5BX: new since 2020WC2B 5UN: new since 2020 Holborn & Covent GardenSt James's Map of every postcode in the WC2B 5 sector, by new since 2020 Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 99 were in use before 2020. 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
  • New since 2020: 2
  • In use before 2020: 99

Of the 101 postcodes in the WC2B 5 sector that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 99 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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

The 2 newest postcodes

WC2B 5UNSeptember 2025WC2B 5BXJanuary 2021

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

Postcodes in WC2B 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.

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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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