NW5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

895 of the district's 1,511 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 51.55173, -0.14512, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in NW5

Companies House lists 2,063 companies with a registered office in NW5; 77 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 NW5

• London
• Greater London
• Camden
• Camden Town
• Islington
• Hampstead

Roads filed under NW5

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.

• Alan Cheales Way
• Allcroft Road
• Alma Street
• Anglers Lane
• Arctic Street
• Ascham Street
• Ashdown Crescent
• Athlone Street
• Azania Mews
• Baptist Gardens
• Barrington Close
• Bartholomew Road
• Bartholomew Villas
• Bassett Street
• Bellgate Mews
• Bellina Mews
• Boscastle Road
• Bramshill Gardens
• Brookfield Park
• Burghley Road
• Busby Place
• Carker's Lane
• Carrol Close
• Cathcart Street
• Caversham Road
• Charlton King's Road
• Chetwynd Road
• Churchill Road
• Coity Road
• College Lane
• College Yard
• Countess Road
• Craddock Street
• Cressfield Close
• Croftdown Road
• Crown Place
• Dale Road
• Dartmouth Park Avenue
• Dartmouth Park Road
• Dowdney Close
• Dunollie Place
• Dunollie Road
• Elaine Grove
• Evangelist Road
• Falkland Road
• Fortess Grove
• Fortess Road
• Fortess Walk
• Fortess Yard
• Frideswide Place
• Gaisford Street
• Gilden Crescent
• Gillies Street
• Glenhurst Avenue
• Gordon House Road
• Gottfried Mews
• Grafton Road
• Grafton Terrace
• Grafton Yard
• Greenwood Place

Check an address in NW5

Check an address in NW5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NW5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NW5

What does an NW5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NW5 district of the NW (North West 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 895 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 NW5

• N191.8 km
• N71.9 km
• NW31.9 km
• NW12.0 km
• N1C2.1 km
• N62.4 km
• NW83.0 km
• WC1H3.1 km
• N53.2 km
• WC1E3.4 km
• WC1X3.5 km
• N43.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids