WC2N 5 postcode sector in the WC2N district

WC2N 5 is a sector of the WC2N district: every postcode that starts WC2N 5. It has 40 postcodes in use, 15 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 WC2N 5 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the WC2N 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 40 postcodes in the WC2N 5 sector that ONS places, 4 are at very low risk only and 36 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: St James's. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A301A4 WC2N 5AE: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5AP: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5BW: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5BX: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5BY: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5DA: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5DB: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5DN: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5DP: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5DS: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5DU: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5DW: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5EJ: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5HS: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5HX: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5HY: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5JB: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5LH: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5LR: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5NF: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5NG: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5NP: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5PB: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5PD: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5PE: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5PH: not on the flood risk listWC2N 5AQ: very low flood risk onlyWC2N 5NS: very low flood risk onlyWC2N 5DG: very low flood risk onlyWC2N 5NT: very low flood risk only St James's Map of every postcode in the WC2N 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 40 postcodes in the WC2N 5 sector that ONS places, 4 are at very low risk only and 36 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: St James's. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. St 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: 4
  • Not on the at-risk list: 36

Of the 40 postcodes in the WC2N 5 sector that ONS places, 4 are at very low risk only and 36 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

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

What do homes sell for in WC2N 5?

HM Land Registry records no standard sales of homes in WC2N 5 in the 12 months to August 2026.

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start WC2N 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 WC2N 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.

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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