W1W 6RZ Westminster

Live postcode, introduced October 2000. Ward: West End. 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.

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£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 E (22% of about 1,210 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, East Marylebone (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 7.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the postcode, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Pegasus House, Sackville Street - Roof Mounted Solar Panels Westminster 21/07248/FULL Solar farm 2.3 MW Permission granted, not yet built Dec 2021 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

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.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

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 2024–25840 m (0.5 miles)
Tottenham Court Road 68 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
London Euston 40 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGreat Portland Street Underground Station390 m
Regent's Park Underground Station440 m (0.3 miles)
Goodge Street Underground Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest New Cavendish Street Fitzrovia170 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus1.6 km (1 mile)
Ferry terminalSavoy Pier Embankment2 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks180 m
EV charging points66 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY13.8 km (8.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR22.8 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fitzrovia Medical Centre Good Jan 2024230 m
Pharmacies47 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fitzrovia Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists69 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest K Dental Studios LTD130 m
HospitalRoyal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Bolsover Street) Good Mar 2019310 m
Care homesMuriel Street Resource Centre Good Apr 20212.5 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationPolice Station Albany Street710 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines8 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clubwizard Ltd.400 m (0.2 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 920 m (0.6 miles); the nearest is 160 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Raccoons Day Nursery Fitzrovia W1W 5AL Full day care 45 Jan 2026: Expected standard in 2 areas, Needs attention in 4 160 m
Premier Education Group @ EIFA International School W1B 1LS Out-of-school day care 15 Not inspected yet 200 m
SuperCamps- Marylebone W1B 1QP Out-of-school day care 54 Not inspected yet 310 m
Rainbow Angels Nurseries & Learning Centres W1T 4ER Full day care 38 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 430 m (0.3 miles)
The Marylebone Kindergarten W1G 6PG Full day care 55 Not inspected yet 650 m (0.4 miles)
Marylebone Little Imaginations Camp W1U 5PP Out-of-school day care 44 Not inspected yet 720 m (0.4 miles)
Maryam's Nursery W1U 4EA Full day care 85 Not inspected yet 760 m (0.5 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ St Vincents W1U W1U 4DF Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 790 m (0.5 miles)
Richer Education Marylebone NW1 5LS Sessional day care 30 Not inspected yet 900 m (0.6 miles)
UCL Nursery WC1H 0PQ Full day care 42 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 920 m (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 44 childminders and 23 home childcarers (nannies) in Westminster. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fitzroy Square 6,750 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Regent's Park 136 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 630 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 920 m²2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 900 m²750 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 141 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 34-52, Portland Place W1, a listed building (Grade II*), 200 m west. 886 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 47 of them Grade I and 73 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
34-52, Portland Place W1Listed building, Grade II*200 m west
56 and 58, Portland Place W1Listed building, Grade II*220 m west
26-30, Portland Place W1Listed building, Grade II*220 m south-west
59 and 61, Riding House Street W1Listed building, Grade II*230 m south-east
A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1Scheduled monument410 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Bedford SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) east
Portman Square and Manchester SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Three Island PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Pelican PoolLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Duck IslandIsland2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
St James's Park LakeLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Paddington GreenWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Barrow HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west

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)32.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)11.0205
Particles (PM10)18.04015

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
Under 55161616

None of the postcode's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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.

51 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 6 serious and 45 slight, in which 6 people were seriously hurt. 7 involved a pedestrian; 23 involved a cyclist; 11 involved a motorcyclist; 4 involved a child under 16. 27% happened in the dark, and 20% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202163
2022151
202380
202481
2025141
The most recent 10 of 51
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
3 Oct 2025 19:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
2 Sep 2025 13:42 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
21 Aug 2025 18:07 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
22 Jul 2025 17:20 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
14 Jul 2025 08:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
10 Jul 2025 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 40 mph Daylight
11 Jun 2025 07:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A4201, 30 mph Daylight
24 May 2025 09:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B506, 30 mph Wet road
2 May 2025 13:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
19 Apr 2025 13:30 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 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.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A501 between A4201 and A400, with 55,240 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 400 m (0.2 miles) from the postcode.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A4201 A5204 to A501 13,436 estimated; counted 2018 2% +6% since 2015 260 m
A5204 A4201 to LA Boundary 8,139 counted 2025 3% -36% since 2015 340 m
A5204 A4201 Langham Place to A4201 Great Portland St 8,139 counted 2025 3% -36% since 2015 350 m
A501 A4201 to A400 55,240 counted 2025 2% -28% since 2015 400 m (0.2 miles)
A501 A501 to A4201 46,882 estimated; counted 2021 5% -35% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)
A4201 A40 to A5204 9,163 counted 2025 3% -32% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 254 residents in 134 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 age3740
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented48%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)59%32%
Travel to work by car or van4%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)85%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)55%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 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 Great Titchfield Street.