NW3 6EG Camden

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: West Hampstead. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Camden in 2026-27: Band D £2,208 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,472£1,717£1,962£2,208£2,698£3,189£3,679£4,415

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (27% of about 1,240 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Basements.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The postcode's addresses are about 56 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsFinchley Road and Frognal 1.9 million journeys in 2024–2560 m
West Hampstead 3.9 million journeys in 2024–25610 m (0.4 miles)
West Hampstead Thameslink 3.1 million journeys in 2024–25620 m (0.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramFinchley Road Underground Station400 m (0.2 miles)
West Hampstead Underground Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Hampstead Underground Station830 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Finchley Road & Frognal Station West Hampstead70 m
Bus or coach stationFinchley Road Underground Station410 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalLondon Zoo Waterbus Stop Regents Park2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest London Secure Parking490 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points69 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY17.3 km (11 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR21.1 km (13 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gray's Inn Medical Group Hampstead640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies24 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dales Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists21 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cricklewood Dental Practice40 m
HospitalRoyal Free Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationWest Hampstead Police Station950 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM550 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West End Green 1,230 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cholmley Gardens 6,460 m²780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²320 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hampstead Cricket Club 2.2 ha170 m
AllotmentsBranch Hill Allotments 2,850 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 66, Frognal, a listed building (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) north. 253 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 21 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
66, FrognalListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) north
Sun HouseListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) north
Tomb of John Constable and Family and Attached Railings in St Johns ChurchyardListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) north
Institute of St MarcellinaListed building, Grade I600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Alexandra Road ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Hampstead CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site6.9 km (4.3 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Whitestone PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Belsize WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Number 1 PondLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Vale of Health PondLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north
Hampstead PondsLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north-east
Primrose HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)22.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.4205
Particles (PM10)15.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59900
Under 5531211

9 of the postcode's 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Camden: see them on the Camden page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 225 residents in 111 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age2940
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)3%61%
Owned outright3%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented46%17%
Private rented52%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)54%32%
Travel to work by car or van5%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram16%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Lithos Road.