EC2M postcode district
EC2M, in the EC (East Central London) postcode area, has 162 live and 662 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 43 roads under it.
| postcode area | EC (East Central London) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 162 |
| terminated postcodes | 662 |
| sectors | 7 |
| roads listed | 43 |
| companies registered | 5,110 |
| centroid | 51.51856, -0.08616 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
162 of the district's 824 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.51856, -0.08616, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| EC2M 1 | 15 | 80 |
| EC2M 2 | 24 | 106 |
| EC2M 3 | 21 | 67 |
| EC2M 4 | 46 | 133 |
| EC2M 5 | 25 | 103 |
| EC2M 6 | 7 | 45 |
| EC2M 7 | 24 | 128 |
Companies registered in EC2M
Companies House lists 5,110 companies with a registered office in EC2M; 4,043 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.
Places OS Open Names lists for EC2M
- Greater London
- London
- City of London
- City and County of the City of London
- Islington
- Tower Hamlets
- Hackney
Roads filed under EC2M
Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.
- Albion Place
- Alderman's Walk
- Barbon Alley
- Bishopsgate
- Bishopsgate Churchyard
- Bishops Square
- Blomfield Street
- Broadgate Circle
- Broad Street Avenue
- Central Courtyard
- Circus Place
- Cock Hill
- Devonshire Row
- Devonshire Square
- Dominion Street
- Eldon Street
- Finsbury Avenue
- Finsbury Circus
- Great Eastern Walk
- Hope Square
- Liverpool Street
- Moorfields
- Moorgate
- Moor Place
- New Broad Street
- New Street
- Norton Folgate
- Rose Alley
- South Place
- South Place Mews
- Spital Square
- Sun Street
- Sun Street Passage
- Swedeland Court
- The Arcade
- The Avenue
- Victoria Avenue
- White Hart Court
- Wilson Street
- Wormwood Street
- A10
- A501
- A1211
Check an address in EC2M
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EC2M" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about EC2M
- What does an EC2M postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the EC2M district of the EC (East Central London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is City of London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 162 live postcodes.
Where the counts come from
- ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
- os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0
What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.
Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.
Districts nearest EC2M
- EC2N0.3 km
- EC2R0.4 km
- EC2Y0.5 km
- EC2A0.6 km
- EC3A0.6 km
- EC3V0.6 km
- EC2V0.6 km
- EC1Y0.7 km
- EC4N0.7 km
- EC3M0.8 km
- EC4R0.9 km
- EC3R0.9 km
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