Property market
The five-year median is £1,317,500 from 10 recorded sales in N5 2QS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Islington is £673,384 in June 2026, down 8.1% year on year.
N5 2QS
Highbury · Islington · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- N5 2QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- N
- Postcode district
- N5
- Postcode sector
- N5 2
- Latitude
- 51.556053
- Longitude
- -0.093878
- British National Grid easting
- 532,240
- British National Grid northing
- 185,851
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Islington · E09000019
- Electoral ward
- Highbury · E05013704
- Parish or community
- E43000209
- Westminster constituency
- Islington North · E14001305
- Output area
- E00013642
- Lower layer super output area
- Islington 009C · E01002743
- Middle layer super output area
- Islington 009 · E02000562
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore N5
Property
49 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, Kelross Road, London, N5 2QS | 28 March 2025 | £2,650,000 |
| 8, Kelross Road, London, N5 2QS | 13 December 2024 | £2,680,000 |
| 2a, Flat B, Kelross Road, London, N5 2QS | 23 August 2024 | £485,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 345
- Primary
- 179
- Secondary
- 45
- 223 m
St Joan of Arc RC Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 442 m
The London Screen Academy
Free schools 16 to 19
- 532 m
St John's Highbury Vale CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16,286
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,038
- Anti social behaviour 1,945
- Theft from the person 1,868
- Other theft 1,444
- Shoplifting 1,174
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 109
- Postcode households
- 50
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- N5 2 residents
- 13,167
54 female, 55 male
Age bands in N5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 43.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.5%
1,736 residents
1,271 residents
5,351 residents
2,746 residents
1,162 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider N5 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
131
within 5 km
HIGHBURY GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-5 HIGHBURY GRANGE, LONDON, N5 2QB
ODS code F83660
146 m
THE STATHAM GROVE SURGERY
STATHAM GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 9DP
ODS code F84115
346 m
THE MILLER PRACTICE
49 HIGHBURY NEW PARK, HIGHBURY, LONDON, N5 2ET
ODS code F83045
529 m
MILDMAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A GREEN LANES, LONDON, N16 9NF
ODS code F83053
693 m
BARTON HOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
233 ALBION ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 9JT
ODS code F84008
848 m
THE ALLERTON ROAD SURGERY
34A ALLERTON ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 5UF
ODS code F84716
1.1 km
THE SURGERY (BARRETTS GROVE)
6 BARRETTS GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 8AR
ODS code F84636
1.2 km
THE VILLAGE PRACTICE
115 ISLEDON ROAD, LONDON, N7 7JJ
ODS code F83664
1.2 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE
140 HOLLOWAY ROAD, LONDON, N7 8DD
ODS code F83673
1.2 km
THE MITCHISON ROAD SURGERY
2 MITCHISON ROAD, LONDON, N1 3NG
ODS code F83056
1.3 km
SOBELL MEDICAL CENTRE
272 HOLLOWAY ROAD, LONDON, N7 6NE
ODS code F83680
1.4 km
THE CEDAR PRACTICE
JOHN SCOTT HEALTH CENTRE, GREEN LANES, LONDON, N4 2NU
ODS code F84036
1.4 km
THE HERON PRACTICE
GREEN LANES, LONDON, N4 2NU
ODS code F84119
1.4 km
SOMERFORD GROVE PRACTICE
SOMERFORD GROVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7UA
ODS code F84033
1.5 km
ISLINGTON GP FEDERATION
UNIT 16-18, 8 HORNSEY STREET, LONDON, N7 8EG
ODS code Y05190
1.5 km
ISLINGTON CENTRAL MEDICAL CENTRE
28 LAYCOCK STREET, LONDON, N1 1SW
ODS code F83010
1.5 km
THE NORTHERN MEDICAL CENTRE
HOLLOWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, 11 HORNSEY STREET, LONDON, N7 8GG
ODS code F83060
1.6 km
THE SURGERY (BROOKE ROAD)
BROOKE ROAD SURGERY, 40-42 BROOKE ROAD, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON, N16 7LR
ODS code F84694
1.7 km
THE ANDOVER MEDICAL CENTRE
ANDOVER MEDICAL CENTRE, 270-282 HORNSEY ROAD, LONDON, N7 7QZ
ODS code F83666
1.7 km
RIVER PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
RIVER PLACE, ESSEX ROAD, LONDON, N1 2DE
ODS code F83002
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 131 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Balfour Road / Crowfield House
BCT · Highbury
- 0.1 miles
Balfour Road / Crowfield House
BCT · Highbury
- 0.1 miles
Highbury Quadrant
BCT · Highbury
- 0.2 miles
Highbury Quadrant
BCT · Highbury
- 0.2 miles
Stoke Newington Church Street
BCT · Highbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Islington 009C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,417 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 18
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
345 open schools are in scope, including 179 primary and 45 secondary schools. St Joan of Arc RC Primary School is the nearest published school at 223 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
16,286 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,357.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,038 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.