WC2E postcode district
WC2E, in the WC (West Central London) postcode area, has 166 live and 401 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 30 roads under it.
| postcode area | WC (West Central London) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 166 |
| terminated postcodes | 401 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 30 |
| companies registered | 1,740 |
| centroid | 51.51188, -0.12332 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
166 of the district's 567 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 51.51188, -0.12332, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| WC2E 7 | 57 | 130 |
| WC2E 8 | 36 | 97 |
| WC2E 9 | 73 | 174 |
Companies registered in WC2E
Companies House lists 1,740 companies with a registered office in WC2E; 1,094 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 WC2E
- City of Westminster
- Greater London
- London
Roads filed under WC2E
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.
- Arne Street
- Banbury Court
- Bedford Street
- Bow Street
- Bull Inn Court
- Burleigh Street
- Conduit Court
- Covent Garden
- Dryden Street
- Exeter Street
- Floral Court
- Floral Street
- Garrick Street
- Garrick Yard
- Hanover Place
- Henrietta Street
- James Street
- Lancaster Place
- Langley Court
- Lazenby Court
- Long Acre
- Maiden Lane
- Rose Street
- Savoy Street
- Slingsby Place
- Southampton Street
- Tavistock Street
- Waterloo Stairs
- Wellington Street
- B402
Check an address in WC2E
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WC2E" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about WC2E
- What does a WC2E postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the WC2E district of the WC (West Central London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is City of Westminster. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 166 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 WC2E
- WC2H0.3 km
- WC2N0.3 km
- WC2R0.4 km
- WC2B0.4 km
- W1D0.7 km
- WC2A0.8 km
- WC1V0.8 km
- WC1B0.9 km
- SW1Y0.9 km
- W1F0.9 km
- WC1A1.0 km
- EC4Y1.0 km
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