N5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

414 of the district's 823 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 51.55390, -0.09854, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in N5

Companies House lists 3,220 companies with a registered office in N5; 1,641 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 N5

• London
• Greater London
• Islington
• Hackney

Roads filed under N5

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.

• Aberdeen Lane
• Aberdeen Park
• Aberdeen Road
• Ardilaun Road
• Arvon Road
• Aubert Park
• Aubert Road
• Avenell Road
• Baalbec Road
• Balfour Road
• Battledean Road
• Beresford Road
• Beresford Terrace
• Birchmore Walk
• Calabria Road
• Canning Road
• Catherall Road
• Century Mews
• Church Path
• Coach House Lane
• Collins Road
• Conewood Street
• Corsica Street
• De Barowe Mews
• Drayton Park
• Elfort Road
• Elphinstone Street
• Elwood Street
• Fergus Road
• Ferntower Road
• Fieldway Crescent
• Framfield Road
• Gallia Road
• Gillespie Road
• Grosvenor Avenue
• Hamilton Lane
• Hamilton Park
• Hamilton Park West
• Hedley Row
• Herrick Road
• Highbury Corner
• Highbury Crescent
• Highbury Grange
• Highbury Grove
• Highbury Hill
• Highbury New Park
• Highbury Park
• Highbury Place
• Highbury Quadrant
• Highbury Terrace
• Highbury Terrace Mews
• Holmcote Gardens
• Horsell Road
• Hurlock Street
• Jack Walker Court
• Kelross Passage
• Kelross Road
• Kelvin Road
• Leconfield Road
• Legard Road

Check an address in N5

Check an address in N5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=N5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about N5

What does an N5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the N5 district of the N (North London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is 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 414 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 N5

• N71.4 km
• N161.8 km
• N11.8 km
• N41.8 km
• E82.5 km
• N192.5 km
• N1C2.7 km
• EC1V3.0 km
• E53.2 km
• NW53.2 km
• WC1X3.2 km
• EC1R3.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids