Schools
349 open schools are in scope, including 143 primary and 33 secondary schools. Westminster Academy is the nearest published school at 82 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
W2 5AU
Westbourne · Westminster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Westbourne
- Local authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Queen's Park and Maida Vale
- Postcode district
- W2
- Postcode sector
- W2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- W2 5AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2022
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- W
- Postcode district
- W2
- Postcode sector
- W2 5
- Latitude
- 51.521592
- Longitude
- -0.192056
- British National Grid easting
- 525,529
- British National Grid northing
- 181,846
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Westminster · E09000033
- Electoral ward
- Westbourne · E05013809
- Parish or community
- E43000236
- Westminster constituency
- Queen's Park and Maida Vale · E14001435
- Output area
- E00024107
- Lower layer super output area
- Westminster 010F · E01032512
- Middle layer super output area
- Westminster 010 · E02000969
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 W2
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 349
- Primary
- 143
- Secondary
- 33
- 82 m
Westminster Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 163 m
Ark Atwood Primary Academy
Free schools
- 177 m
Edward Wilson Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20,715
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,878
- Anti social behaviour 2,565
- Other theft 2,516
- Shoplifting 1,824
- Theft from the person 1,601
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- W2 5 residents
- 10,745
Age bands in W2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- 1,466 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.3%
- 1,452 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 37.4%
- 4,087 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- 2,710 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 11.1%
- 1,208 residents
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
134
within 5 km straight-line
THE WESTBOURNE GREEN SURGERY
HEALTH AT THE STOWE, 260 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W2 5ES
ODS code Y00902
87 m
GRAND UNION HEALTH CENTRE
209 HARROW ROAD, PADDINGTON, LONDON, W2 5EH
ODS code E87637
186 m
WOODFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE 7E, WOODFIELD ROAD, LONDON, W9 3XZ
ODS code E87741
402 m
ELGIN CLINIC
40 ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 3QT
ODS code E87038
571 m
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BAYSWATER CENTRE 14-18, NEWTON ROAD, LONDON, W2 5LT
ODS code E87681
592 m
MEANWHILE GARDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
UNIT 5, 1-31 ELKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, W10 5NT
ODS code E87026
770 m
MAIDA VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 BIDDULPH MANSIONS, ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1HT
ODS code E87010
793 m
THE GARWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PICKERING HOUSE, HALLFIELD ESTATE, LONDON, W2 6HF
ODS code E87009
827 m
THE RANDOLPH SURGERY
235A ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1NH
ODS code E87046
985 m
WESTBOURNE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
241 WESTBOURNE GROVE, LONDON, W11 2SE
ODS code E87007
997 m
THE PEMBRIDGE VILLAS SURGERY
45A PEMBRIDGE VILLAS, LONDON, W11 3EP
ODS code E87061
1.0 km
THE GOLBORNE MEDICAL CENTRE
12-16 GOLBORNE ROAD, LONDON, W10 5PG
ODS code E87024
1.1 km
HALF PENNY STEPS HEALTH CENTRE
427-429 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W10 4RE
ODS code Y02842
1.1 km
THIRD FLOOR LANARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
165 LANARK ROAD, LONDON, W9 1NZ
ODS code E87663
1.1 km
CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CROMPTON STREET, LONDON, W2 1ND
ODS code E87052
1.1 km
LITTLE VENICE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 CROMPTON STREET, LONDON, W2 1ND
ODS code E87006
1.1 km
SRIKRISHNAMURTHY HARROW ROAD SURGERY
574 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W10 4NJ
ODS code E87751
1.2 km
COLVILLE HEALTH CENTRE
51 KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, LONDON, W11 1PA
ODS code E87067
1.2 km
GOLBORNE CANALSIDE HEALTH CENTRE
175A KENSAL ROAD, LONDON, W10 5DD
ODS code E87742
1.2 km
LANCASTER GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
LEINSTER TERRACE, LONDON, W2 3ET
ODS code E87722
1.3 km
Showing 20 of 134 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 74 m
Westminster Academy / Cirencester Street
BCT · Harrow Road
- 81 m
Westminster Academy / Cirencester Street
BCT · Harrow Road
- 194 m
Sutherland Avenue Westbourne Green
BCT · Westbourne Green
- 223 m
Sutherland Avenue Westbourne Green
BCT · Westbourne Green
- 262 m
Royal Oak
BCT · Royal Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Westminster 010F, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,388 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
20,715 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,726 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,878 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.