Mecklenburgh Square London, Camden

1,005 addresses across 9 postcodes (WC1N), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20499101.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £2,768,800 across 1 sale.
  • 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: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 14).
  • Flood: 19 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A5200, carries 14,009 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; 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 London Kings Cross, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Mecklenburgh Square Gardens, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 30.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 173 of its 1,029 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Bloomsbury Surgery, about 280 m away, with 24 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,810 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 24% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 240 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 16 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious; 3 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£2,768,800£2,768,800£2,768,800
20172£1,770,616£1,600,000£1,941,232
20161£825,000£825,000£825,000
20151£2,750,000£2,750,000£2,750,000
20131£855,000£855,000£855,000
20111£521,485£521,485£521,485
20101£950,000£950,000£950,000
20072£533,500£465,000£602,000
20063£665,000£410,000£2,000,000
20043£350,000£310,000£365,000
20033£325,000£307,500£347,500
20022£362,500£325,000£400,000
All 39 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Oct 200611 WC1N 2ADTerraced£2,000,000
4 Jul 199711 WC1N 2ADTerraced£680,000
19 Apr 199511 WC1N 2ADTerraced£645,000
10 Feb 202112 WC1N 2ADOther£64,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 2000FLAT 1, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£265,000Leasehold.
7 Aug 1997FLAT 1, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
10 Feb 2021FLAT 2, 12 WC1N 2ADOther£66,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jul 1997FLAT 2, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 2016FLAT 3, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£825,000Leasehold.
2 May 2003FLAT 3, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£347,500Leasehold.
27 Jun 1997FLAT 3, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 2006FLAT 4, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£410,000Leasehold.
19 Sep 2003FLAT 4, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£307,500Leasehold.
9 Jul 1997FLAT 4, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£220,000Leasehold.
30 Mar 2004FLAT 5, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£310,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 1997FLAT 5, 12 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£210,000Leasehold.
19 Jan 2007FLAT 1, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£465,000Leasehold.
23 Mar 2004FLAT 1, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£365,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 1997FLAT 1, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
18 May 2001FLAT 2, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£277,500Leasehold.
24 Aug 1999FLAT 2, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£240,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 1997FLAT 2, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
25 Feb 2011FLAT 3, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£521,485Leasehold.
12 Nov 2003FLAT 3, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£325,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 1997FLAT 3, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 2013FLAT 4, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£855,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 2004FLAT 4, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£350,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 1997FLAT 4, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£220,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 1997FLAT 5, 13 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 2017FLAT 1, 14 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£1,941,232Leasehold.
24 Mar 2006FLAT 1, 14 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£665,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 2010FLAT 3, 14 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£950,000Leasehold.
27 Sep 2002FLAT 2, 17 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£325,000Leasehold.
23 Dec 2002TOP FLAT, 17 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£400,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 199818A WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£875,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 2017FLAT 3, 19 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£1,600,000Leasehold.
28 Mar 2024FLAT 1, 20 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£2,768,800Leasehold.
19 Feb 2015FLAT 1, 20 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£2,750,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 2007FLAT 1, 20 WC1N 2ADFlat or maisonette£602,000Leasehold.

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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (21); Maisonette, mid-terrace (4). Built: before 1900 (19); 1900-1929 (3); Pre-1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (8); owner-occupied (8); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,059 kWh of it on average in 2024, 42% more than the district's 9,177 kWh, and 3,187 kWh of electricity, 10% more than the district's 2,890 kWh. There are gas meters for about 89% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WC1N 2AD33 5 Economy 71,902 kWh 298,855 kWh
WC1N 2AJ151,444 kWh 158,986 kWh
WC1N 2AA22 5 Economy 72,848 kWh 1816,224 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WC1N.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (33% of about 1,980 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, Bloomsbury (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • 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

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 October 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 16 September 2026 to 17 September 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 14 September 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)

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, 19 at medium risk and 15 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WC1N 2ANnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WC1N 2ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WC1N 2AFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WC1N 2ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 12 / 0 unlikely
WC1N 2AJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 12 unlikely
WC1N 2APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WC1N 2NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
WC1N 2NYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WC1N 2AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 6 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any 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 on the street 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.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

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 1,029 addresses are between 21 m and 22 m above sea level (21 m on average).

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
WC1N 2AA100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2AB100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2AD100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2AF100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2AJ100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2AN100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2AP100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2NU100%100%100%0%
WC1N 2NY100%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 stationsLondon Kings Cross 28 million journeys in 2024–25640 m (0.4 miles)
London St Pancras International 39 million journeys in 2024–25920 m (0.6 miles)
London Euston 40 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramRussell Square Underground Station480 m (0.3 miles)
King's Cross St. Pancras Underground Station630 m (0.4 miles)
Holborn Underground Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 74 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Heathcote Street Russell Square100 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus720 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalSavoy Pier Embankment1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP London Kings Cross St Pancras390 m
EV charging points47 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest TotalEnergies Charging Station260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.3 km (7.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24.5 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 surgeries24 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Bloomsbury Surgery Good Aug 2016280 m
Pharmacies32 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hasscon Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists41 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery220 m
HospitalThe Eastman Dental Hospital120 m
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Muriel Street Resource Centre Good Apr 20211.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationKings Cross Police Station390 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone370 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 garden23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mecklenburgh Square Gardens 9,750 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Russell Square Gardens 2.5 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 900 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 23 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 11-26 and Attached Railings, Byron Court (Number 26), a listed building (Grade II*), 100 m south-east. 634 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 18 of them Grade I and 45 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Numbers 11-26 and Attached Railings, Byron Court (Number 26)Listed building, Grade II*100 m south-east
CORAM'S FIELDS, with MECKLENBURGH and BRUNSWICK SQUARESRegistered park or garden, Grade II160 m south-west
St George's GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*160 m west
Charles Dickens House and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade I290 m south-east
Numbers 4 to 16 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*350 m south
Numbers 1 to 7 and Attached Railings and Lamp HolderListed building, Grade II*370 m south
Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, ClerkenwellScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) east
Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)Scheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Inner Temple Hall ButteryScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site3 km (1.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
King's ReachTidal water2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Three Island PondLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Pelican PoolLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Duck IslandIsland2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Barrow HillHill3.3 km (2.1 miles) west
Paddington GreenWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) 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)30.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.4205
Particles (PM10)17.54015

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
65 to 6911200
60 to 641800
55 to 594300
Under 558561,0291,029

173 of the street's 1,029 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), 6 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Capital City College16 plus14–99130 m No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C-; 2.3% AAB or better; progress below average
Thomas Coram CentreNursery2–5140 m No published inspection
St George the Martyr Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 22% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Argyle Primary SchoolPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 85% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Christopher Hatton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 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 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 90% in 2024 and 88% in 2023)
Winton Primary SchoolPrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 92% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
St Alban's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Hugh Myddelton Primary SchoolPrimary2–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 89% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 90% in 2023)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson SchoolSecondary11–16910 m (0.6 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 55.0 (52.7 in 2025 and 54.0 in 2024); 54% grade 5+ in English and maths
Maria Fidelis Catholic School FCJ Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.1 (41.9 in 2025 and 41.8 in 2024); 45.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 2.3% AAB or better; progress below average
St Josephs Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Vittoria Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 710 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 170 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Corams Fields Community Nursery WC1N 1DN Full day care 36 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 170 m
Coram's Fields Out of School Club WC1N 1DN Out-of-school day care 40 Mar 2026: Strong standard in 3 areas, Expected standard in 1 170 m
Collingham Gardens Nursery WC1N 1PH Full day care 24 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 220 m
The Cubit Street Play Centre WC1X 0LJ Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 300 m
Kiddycare Millman Street Nursery WC1N 3EW Full day care 43 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 310 m
Great Ormond Street Hospital Staff Nursery WC1N 3LU Full day care 73 Good (Jun 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 320 m
Fine Learning Centre WC1H 8DR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 330 m
1a Nursery EC1R 4SR Full day care 42 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Clerkenwell Mount Day Nursery and Pre School EC1R 1UN Full day care 55 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Body and Soul EC1R 4RE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 710 m (0.4 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 6 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
Baxterstorey WC1N 2ANHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises20 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
BAXTERSTOREY / GOODENOUGH COLLEGE WC1N 2ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
ION CANTEEN WC1X 8LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Aramark LTD WC1X 8RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good19 May 2026
Thomas Coram Centre & Nursery School WC1N 2NYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 mAwaiting inspection
Calthorpe Community Garden WC1X 8LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 mAwaiting inspection
London Welsh Centre Trust WC1X 8UEOther catering premises160 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Coram's Fields Nursery WC1N 1DNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good13 Oct 2025
Coram's Fields Cafe WC1N 1DNRetailers - other170 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
FUSION HOSPITALITY WC1N 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Nuffield Health Bloomsbury WC1N 2AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good12 Jan 2026
Calthorpe Arms WC1X 8JRPub/bar/nightclub210 m2 Improvement necessary10 Mar 2026
LEBANESE GARDEN WC1X 8JRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Jan 2026
BENCH BISTRO WC1X 8RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good2 Dec 2025
Vape Shop WC1X 8RHRetailers - other220 m2 Improvement necessary18 May 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.

240 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences64
Theft from the person44
Anti-social behaviour34
Other theft32
Drugs19
Burglary12
Public order9
Bicycle theft8
Robbery7
Vehicle crime6
Criminal damage and arson4
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gray'S Inn Road (37); On or near Sidmouth Mews (32); On or near Mecklenburgh Place (29); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (27); On or near Mecklenburgh Square (18).

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.

16 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 13 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 9 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist. 44% happened in the dark, and 19% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202261
202331
202431
202530
The most recent 10 of 16
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
17 Dec 2025 18:05 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A5200, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
5 Nov 2025 17:23 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B502, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
6 Jun 2025 17:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
18 Nov 2024 14:46 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B502, 30 mph Daylight
10 Oct 2024 15:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
9 May 2024 10:00 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
22 Nov 2023 09:07 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
19 Nov 2023 23:22 Slight 5 people Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, frost or ice
22 Sep 2023 10:15 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A5200, 20 mph Daylight
9 Nov 2022 10:30 Serious 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Wet road

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 A5200 between Acton St and Swinton St, with 14,009 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 280 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A5200 Clerkenwell Rd to Acton St 11,160 counted 2025 3% -10% since 2015 50 m
A201 Gray's Inn Rd to King's Cross Road 7,723 estimated; counted 2018 3% -16% since 2015 270 m
A5200 Acton St to Swinton St 14,009 estimated; counted 2019 3% +13% since 2015 280 m
A201 A401 to Acton St 12,186 counted 2025 3% -38% since 2015 290 m
A201 Gray's Inn Rd to King's Cross Rd 8,009 counted 2025 3% -31% since 2015 350 m
A201 Acton St to Swinton St 10,465 estimated; counted 2024 3% -26% since 2015 400 m (0.2 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.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,811 residents in 489 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 age2640
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)24%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work37%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)18%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)52%32%
Travel to work by car or van6%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus19%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)65%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 6 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 Laoma (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC1X 9BJ) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 30 September 2026) found 5 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Itadaki Zen (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC1X 9BJ) now 4 Good, was 2 Improvement necessary (rated 29 September 2026) found 4 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN: Highway repair and maintenance works, 24 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Baba & Laksa (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC1X 9LR) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings KOLACH (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC1H 9SE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026

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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.

Nearby streets

Mecklenburgh Square · Heathcote Street · Westking Place · Sidmouth Street · Mecklenburgh Place · Seaford Street · Ampton Street · Wren Street · Guilford Street · Wells Square · Seddon Street · Regent Square

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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.