W1G 6AQ Westminster

Live postcode, introduced December 2000. Ward: Marylebone. Region: London.

Streets

House prices and rents in Westminster

A typical home in Westminster cost £887,206 in August 2026, 14.3% less than a year before. That is 25% less than five years earlier and 15% less than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£3,935,497
Semi-detached£2,810,593
Terraced£1,641,592
Flat or maisonette£784,694
Bought by a first-time buyer£791,770

Private renters in Westminster paid £3,209 a month on average in September 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£2,557
Two bedrooms£3,320
Three bedrooms£3,912
Four or more bedrooms£5,447

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Westminster in 2026-27: Band D £1,050 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£700£816£933£1,050£1,283£1,516£1,749£2,099

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band G (48% of about 1,170 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: yes, Harley Street (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 35.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed, Article 4 Direction Class E To C3 In Central Activities Zone.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

And 5 more.

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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

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.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Height above sea level

The postcode's addresses are about 27 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 stationsBond Street 43 million journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
London Marylebone 12 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
London Euston 40 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramRegent's Park Underground Station300 m
Great Portland Street Underground Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Baker Street Underground Station660 m (0.4 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Portland Place Fitzrovia200 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalLondon Zoo Waterbus Stop Regents Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Q-Park Marylebone330 m
EV charging points60 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY14.2 km (8.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR22.4 km (14 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 surgeries16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marylebone Health Centre320 m
Pharmacies43 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmacierge Limited80 m
NHS dentists69 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mr Richard S Kahan0 m
HospitalWeymouth Street Hospital190 m
Police stationLondon City Police Department660 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Halifax Cash Machine370 m

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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crescent Gardens 9,430 m²270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Regent's Park 136 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,850 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4,520 m²2.6 km (1.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 900 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 151 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 92 and 94, Harley Street W1, a listed building (Grade II*), 40 m. 856 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 45 of them Grade I and 63 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
92 and 94, Harley Street W1Listed building, Grade II*40 m
107 and 109, Harley Street W1Listed building, Grade II*40 m
106, Harley Street W1Listed building, Grade II*60 m north
115, Harley Street W1Listed building, Grade II*70 m north
A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1Scheduled monument170 m north-east
Portman Square and Manchester SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II730 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Grosvenor SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Three Island PondLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north
Paddington GreenWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Barrow HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
The SerpentineLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
The FountainsLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Duck IslandIsland2.3 km (1.4 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)29.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.4205
Particles (PM10)17.34015

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
60 to 641000
Under 5501010

10 of the postcode's 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

43 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 11 serious and 32 slight, in which 12 people were seriously hurt. 11 involved a pedestrian; 16 involved a cyclist; 12 involved a motorcyclist. 21% happened in the dark, and 16% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202170
2022146
202381
202483
202561
The most recent 10 of 43
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
9 Oct 2025 14:03 Serious 2 people: 1 pedestrian, 1 motorcyclist A4201, 20 mph Daylight
25 Sep 2025 12:50 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
22 Sep 2025 08:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
9 Sep 2025 14:10 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
12 Aug 2025 07:54 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A4201, 20 mph Daylight
23 Jan 2025 09:13 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A4201, 20 mph Daylight
6 Dec 2024 14:10 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
11 Sep 2024 09:35 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A4201, 20 mph Daylight
3 Sep 2024 09:50 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
31 Jul 2024 11:20 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A4201, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

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 Westminster: see them on the Westminster 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: 202 residents in 101 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 age4640
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented55%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)66%32%
Travel to work by car or van5%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)80%34%
No qualifications4%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 9 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 Harley Street.