Compton Passage London, Islington

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (EC1V), about 70 m long. USRN 21606795.

  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 12, C: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Islington costs £2,108 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Farringdon, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Priory Church Garden, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 29.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Clerkenwell Medical Practice, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 64% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 467 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Flat (14); Maisonette (1). Built: 2009 (8); 2007-2011 (7). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,405£1,640£1,874£2,108£2,577£3,045£3,514£4,216

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (38% of about 1,560 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 street; 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, Clerkenwell Green (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes 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 on this street 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 street's addresses are about 19 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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
EC1V 0BA100%100%100%0%
EC1V 0BN100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsFarringdon 50 million journeys in 2024–25540 m (0.3 miles)
Old Street 6.1 million journeys in 2024–25930 m (0.6 miles)
Moorgate 8.8 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramFarringdon Underground Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Barbican Underground Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Angel Underground Station950 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 83 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Aylesbury Street (EC1) St Lukes110 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalBlackfriars Pier1.5 km (1 mile)
Car parks13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pink Parking140 m
EV charging points42 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ESB Energy Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.1 km (6.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR25.6 km (16 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clerkenwell Medical Practice490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies27 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmica260 m
NHS dentists48 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Old Street Dental Clinic350 m
HospitalSt Bartholomews Hospital670 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationSnowhill Police Station840 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone440 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 middle of the street 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 garden20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Priory Church Garden 170 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Spa Fields 7,790 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²70 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²760 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 840 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 20 parks and gardens, 6.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Priory Church of St John of Jerusalem, a listed building (Grade I), 190 m south-west. 593 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 20 of them Grade I and 37 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priory Church of St John of JerusalemListed building, Grade I190 m south-west
Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, ClerkenwellScheduled monument290 m west
St John's GateListed building, Grade I290 m south
Church of St James and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*290 m south-west
The CharterhouseListed building, Grade I360 m south
Golden Lane Estate Designed LandscapeRegistered park or garden, Grade II450 m (0.3 miles) south-east
The BarbicanRegistered park or garden, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastions, west and north of Monkwell SquareScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Noble StreetScheduled monument900 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
King's ReachTidal water2.7 km (1.6 miles) south-west
West DockLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
St Katharine Docks BasinLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Upper PoolTidal water2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Primrose HillHill4.4 km (2.8 miles) west
RedriffWetland4.4 km (2.8 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 middle of the street. 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)29.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.5205
Particles (PM10)17.64015

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 59100
Under 55171818

1 of the street's 18 addresses is 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 Islington: see them on the Islington page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary2–1170 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
City of London Primary Academy, IslingtonPrimary4–11430 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moreland Primary SchoolPrimary0–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hugh Myddelton Primary SchoolPrimary2–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Prior Weston Primary School and Children's CentrePrimary0–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Christopher Hatton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Alban's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Hanover Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St George the Martyr Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Evangelist Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Central Foundation Boys' SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Sofu Coffee EC1V 0BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Sep 2026
Clerkenwells Coffee & Books EC1V 0BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good8 Oct 2024
Caffe Tiffin EC1V 0BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Giselle Richardson EC1V 0BNRetailers - other60 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Oct 2024
Dragonfly Cafe EC1V 0BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
Vacherin Ltd @ BDP EC1V 4LJOther catering premises70 m5 Very good16 Feb 2024
Embassy Electrical Supplies EC1V 0BNImporters/Exporters80 m4 Good7 Jan 2026
Waitrose EC1V 4DERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Sushi Daily @ Waitrose EC1V 4DETakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
FORA Space Limited EC1V 0BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Tesco EC1V 4JDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 m5 Very good6 Apr 2022
L'Angolo Restaurant EC1V 4JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m2 Improvement necessary11 Feb 2026
Dallington School Limited EC1V 0BWSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Pret A Manger EC1V 4JZTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Benny's Kitchen EC1V 4LSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m1 Major improvement necessary25 Aug 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

467 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences111
Anti-social behaviour71
Theft from the person57
Other theft52
Shoplifting45
Burglary38
Drugs31
Public order14
Robbery14
Vehicle crime11
Criminal damage and arson8
Bicycle theft8
Other crime6
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (74); On or near Cyrus Street (39); On or near Tompion Street (35); On or near Great Sutton Street (31); On or near Mount Mills (29).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 449 residents in 248 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 streetEngland
Median age3440
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)62%32%
Travel to work by car or van6%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)92%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)64%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Six Svn Desserts & Shakes, Delulu Desserts & Shakes, Swevy Desserts (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EC1V 7DT) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Afrikana Express Angel (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EC1V 4PE) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Simmons Farringdon (pub/bar/nightclub, EC1M 6HW) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Rocket – Table to Table @MAT (other catering premises, EC1V 8AB) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 14 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Graysons Hospitality (other catering premises, EC1V 0HB) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 13 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Brewhouse Yard · Dallington Square · Berry Street · Brewery Square · Pardon Street · Aylesbury Street · Dallington Street · Compton Street · Upper Street · Northburgh Street · Cyrus Street · Malta Street

All the streets in EC1V and across Islington.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.