Denmark Place London, Camden

1 address across 1 postcode (WC2H), about 80 m long. USRN 20401202.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Camden cost £798,486 in August 2026 (-10.6% on a year); private rents averaged £2,834 a month.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Pegasus House, Sackville Street - Roof Mounted Solar Panels, is 900 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A401, carries 15,150 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Camden costs £2,208 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tottenham Court Road, about 40 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 140 m away, and Russell Square Gardens (2.5 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 32.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 11.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Soho Centre For Health And Care, about 190 m away, with 16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 21% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5,707 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often theft from the person.
  • Road safety: 92 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 17 of them fatal or serious; 43 involved a pedestrian.

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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.

House prices and rents in Camden

A typical home in Camden cost £798,486 in August 2026, 10.6% less than a year before. That is 7% less than five years earlier and 5% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£3,574,639
Semi-detached£2,080,738
Terraced£1,533,317
Flat or maisonette£656,955
Bought by a first-time buyer£696,585

Private renters in Camden paid £2,834 a month on average in September 2026, 1.4% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£2,063
Two bedrooms£2,634
Three bedrooms£3,071
Four or more bedrooms£3,986

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, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 March 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: Flat (1). Built: 2022 (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

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.

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (27% of about 1,190 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 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, Denmark Street (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 7.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Basements, Commercial, Business, and Service (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3) (in CAZ).
  • 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 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 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 900 m (0.6 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 street's postcodes.

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 street's postcodes.

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 street's postcodes.

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 street's postcodes.

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 street's addresses are about 25 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
WC2H 0LA100%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 stationsTottenham Court Road 68 million journeys in 2024–2540 m
London Charing Cross 20 million journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Bond Street 43 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramTottenham Court Road Underground Station110 m
Covent Garden Underground Station460 m (0.3 miles)
Leicester Square Underground Station470 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tottenham Court Road Station20 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalSavoy Pier Embankment1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks340 m
EV charging points56 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge140 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.9 km (8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR23.5 km (15 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 middle of the street. 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 Soho Centre For Health And Care Good Apr 2026190 m
Pharmacies40 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Watsons Pharmacy190 m
NHS dentists70 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Centre Point Dental20 m
HospitalRoyal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital740 m (0.5 miles)
Care homesNorton House Good May 20262.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationCharing Cross Police Station730 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 118-132 New Oxford Street Halifax120 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 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,180 m²140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Russell Square Gardens 2.5 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²90 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 920 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 900 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 5.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is No 7 Denmark Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 50 m. 1,180 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 51 of them Grade I and 137 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
No 7 Denmark StreetListed building, Grade II*50 m
No 6 Denmark StreetListed building, Grade II*50 m
Church of St Giles in the FieldsListed building, Grade I100 m east
Roman Catholic Church of St PatricksListed building, Grade II*100 m west
Bedford SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II*390 m north
Bloomsbury SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II610 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Inner Temple Hall ButteryScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pelican PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) south
Duck IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
King's ReachTidal water1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
St James's Park LakeLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Paddington GreenWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) west
Barrow HillHill3.3 km (2.1 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 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)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
75 dB or more100
65 to 69400
60 to 64100
Under 55177

6 of the street's 7 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.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Soho Parish CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Josephs Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
City Lit16 plus16–99670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Clement Danes CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
All Souls CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St George the Martyr Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thomas Coram CentreNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Alban's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Christopher Hatton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 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
Capital City College16 plus14–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Argyle Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Netley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 350 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Turtles Nursery Limited WC2H 9RF Full day care 31 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 350 m
Soho Family Centre Nursery W1F 0RN Full day care 40 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 460 m (0.3 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ St Clement Danes WC2B WC2B 5SU Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 720 m (0.4 miles)
Rainbow Angels Nurseries & Learning Centres W1T 4ER Full day care 38 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
High Fliers Jeannine Manuel WC1B 5EA Out-of-school day care 48 Not inspected yet 760 m (0.5 miles)
UCL Nursery WC1H 0NU Full day care 24 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 930 m (0.6 miles)
UCL Nursery WC1H 0PQ Full day care 42 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Little Raccoons Day Nursery Fitzrovia W1W 5AL Full day care 45 Jan 2026: Expected standard in 2 areas, Needs attention in 4 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
RAFAKidz London SW1A 2HB Full day care 39 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Great Ormond Street Hospital Staff Nursery WC1N 3LU Full day care 73 Good (Jun 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 70 childminders and 53 home childcarers (nannies) in Camden. 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 middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
BLANK STREET UK LIMITED WC2H 0LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
BUNS FROM HOME WC2H 0LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Lureeb WC2H 8NETakeaway/sandwich shop30 mAwaiting inspection
SMASH BN LONDON WC2H 0LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 mAwaiting inspection
Berbere Pizzeria WC2H 8APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
CHARLIE'S TEA WC2H 8LHTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
REDEMPTION ROASTERS WC2H 8LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good1 Nov 2024
Flat Iron WC2H 8LSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
THIRTEEN LDN WC2H 8LPPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Donutelier W1D 3BGRetailers - other60 m5 Very good6 Jan 2026
Tigermilk WC2H 0EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Dec 2025
Sushinoya WC2H 0EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good30 Jan 2026
Starbucks Coffee Company W1D 3BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m2 Improvement necessary14 Jul 2026
TK Maxx WC2H 0JRRetailers - other80 mExempt
TK Maxx WC2H 0JRRetailers - other80 mExempt

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.

5,707 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Theft from the person2025
Other theft1194
Shoplifting591
Violence and sexual offences567
Anti-social behaviour538
Robbery202
Drugs192
Public order185
Burglary54
Criminal damage and arson45
Bicycle theft34
Vehicle crime31
Other crime30
Possession of weapons19

Most of these are attached to: On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (1453); On or near Nightclub (714); On or near Soho Street (490); On or near Conference/Exhibition Centre (488); On or near Parking Area (322).

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 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

92 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 17 serious and 75 slight, in which 18 people were seriously hurt. 43 involved a pedestrian; 36 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 43% 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
2021111
2022132
2023228
2024193
2025273
The most recent 10 of 92
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
16 Dec 2025 17:57 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A40, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
13 Dec 2025 20:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A400, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
1 Nov 2025 00:50 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A40, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
31 Oct 2025 20:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A400, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
31 Oct 2025 18:07 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A400, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
30 Oct 2025 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A400, 20 mph Daylight
27 Oct 2025 12:36 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A400, 20 mph Daylight
21 Oct 2025 00:02 Slight 1 person A400, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
5 Oct 2025 21:50 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A40, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
5 Oct 2025 15:05 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A40, 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 A401 between A400 and High Holborn, with 15,150 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 180 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A400 A401 to A40 3,578 estimated; counted 2024 3% 20 m
A40 Charing Cross Road to Shaftesbury Ave 4,621 estimated; counted 2019 5% 90 m
A40 Charing Cross Road to Earnshaw St 10,425 estimated; counted 2019 3% 110 m
A401 A400 to High Holborn 15,150 estimated; counted 2023 2% 0% since 2015 180 m
A40 Not recorded 7,772 estimated; counted 2023 5% 200 m
A401 Shaftesbury Avenue to New Oxford St 8,606 estimated; counted 2024 3% -33% since 2015 240 m

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.

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 street's postcodes are in: 230 residents in 130 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 age3740
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)21%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented39%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van3%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)94%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street 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.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Homeslice (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC2H 9DP) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 29 September 2026) found 4 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings FLYING TIGER COPENHAGEN (retailers - other, W1T 1BJ) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Camera Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC1A 1LY) is no longer listed; it was rated 3 Generally satisfactory found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings HOTEL CHOCOLAT LTD (retailers - other, WC2H 9PA) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings MASA TACOS (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC2H 9LX) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 2 June 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • WC2H 0LA: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Charing Cross Road · St Giles High Street · St. Giles Square · Goslett Yard · Soho Place · Charing Cross Road · Flitcroft Street · Stacey Street · Earnshaw Street · Sutton Row · Central St Giles Piazza · Manette Street

All the streets in WC2H and across Camden.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.