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, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in the WC2N 5 sector, by new since 2020 Of the 40 postcodes in the WC2N 5 sector that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 39 were in use before 2020. 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: before 2020WC2N 5AP: before 2020WC2N 5AQ: before 2020WC2N 5BX: before 2020WC2N 5BY: before 2020WC2N 5DA: before 2020WC2N 5DB: before 2020WC2N 5DG: before 2020WC2N 5DN: before 2020WC2N 5DP: before 2020WC2N 5DS: before 2020WC2N 5DU: before 2020WC2N 5DW: before 2020WC2N 5EJ: before 2020WC2N 5HS: before 2020WC2N 5HX: before 2020WC2N 5HY: before 2020WC2N 5JB: before 2020WC2N 5LH: before 2020WC2N 5LR: before 2020WC2N 5NF: before 2020WC2N 5NG: before 2020WC2N 5NP: before 2020WC2N 5NT: before 2020WC2N 5PB: before 2020WC2N 5PD: before 2020WC2N 5PE: before 2020WC2N 5PH: before 2020WC2N 5DE: before 2020WC2N 5EH: new since 2020 St James's Map of every postcode in the WC2N 5 sector, by new since 2020 Of the 40 postcodes in the WC2N 5 sector that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 39 were in use before 2020. 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
  • New since 2020: 1
  • In use before 2020: 39

Of the 40 postcodes in the WC2N 5 sector that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 39 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

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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

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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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