EC2V postcode district
EC2V, in the EC (East Central London) postcode area, has 99 live and 357 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 38 roads under it.
| postcode area | EC (East Central London) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 99 |
| terminated postcodes | 357 |
| sectors | 4 |
| roads listed | 38 |
| companies registered | 5,353 |
| centroid | 51.51541, -0.09362 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
99 of the district's 456 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 51.51541, -0.09362, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| EC2V 5 | 17 | 60 |
| EC2V 6 | 25 | 82 |
| EC2V 7 | 41 | 135 |
| EC2V 8 | 16 | 80 |
Companies registered in EC2V
Companies House lists 5,353 companies with a registered office in EC2V; 4,574 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 EC2V
- Greater London
- London
- City of London
- City and County of the City of London
- Islington
Roads filed under EC2V
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.
- Alban Highwalk
- Aldermanbury
- Aldermanbury Square
- Basinghall Avenue
- Basinghall Street
- Bassishaw Highwalk
- Brewers Wall
- Carey Lane
- Cheapside
- Cheapside Passage
- Compter Passage
- Crown Court
- Foster Lane
- Goldsmith Street
- Gresham Street
- Guildhall Buildings
- Guildhall Yard
- Gutter Lane
- Honey Lane
- Ironmonger Lane
- John Milton Passage
- King Street
- Lawrence Lane
- Love Lane
- Mason's Avenue
- Milk Street
- Noble Street
- Oat Lane
- Priest's Court
- Prudent Passage
- Rose and Crown Court
- Russia Row
- Staining Lane
- St Alban's Court
- St Olave's Court
- Three Nun Court
- Trump Street
- Wood Street
Check an address in EC2V
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EC2V" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about EC2V
- What does an EC2V postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the EC2V 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 99 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 EC2V
- EC2R0.2 km
- EC4N0.3 km
- EC4M0.4 km
- EC2Y0.5 km
- EC2N0.5 km
- EC4V0.5 km
- EC4R0.6 km
- EC3V0.6 km
- EC2M0.6 km
- EC1Y0.9 km
- EC1M0.9 km
- EC3R0.9 km
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