Schools
365 open schools are in scope, including 150 primary and 34 secondary schools. Westminster Academy is the nearest published school at 189 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
W2 5EG
Bayswater · Westminster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bayswater
- Local authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- Postcode district
- W2
- Postcode sector
- W2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- W2 5EG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- W
- Postcode district
- W2
- Postcode sector
- W2 5
- Latitude
- 51.519366
- Longitude
- -0.191121
- British National Grid easting
- 525,600
- British National Grid northing
- 181,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Westminster · E09000033
- Electoral ward
- Bayswater · E05013793
- Parish or community
- E43000236
- Westminster constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater · E14001310
- Output area
- E00023459
- Lower layer super output area
- Westminster 014D · E01004656
- Middle layer super output area
- Westminster 014 · E02000973
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 365
- Primary
- 150
- Secondary
- 34
- 189 m
Westminster Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 252 m
Edward Wilson Primary School
Community school
- 367 m
St Mary Magdalene & St Stephen's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19,898
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,554
- Other theft 2,484
- Anti social behaviour 2,420
- Shoplifting 1,807
- Theft from the person 1,635
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%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 37.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.1%
1,466 residents
1,452 residents
4,087 residents
2,710 residents
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.
GP practices
133
within 5 km straight-line
GRAND UNION HEALTH CENTRE
209 HARROW ROAD, PADDINGTON, LONDON, W2 5EH
ODS code E87637
78 m
THE WESTBOURNE GREEN SURGERY
HEALTH AT THE STOWE, 260 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W2 5ES
ODS code Y00902
170 m
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BAYSWATER CENTRE 14-18, NEWTON ROAD, LONDON, W2 5LT
ODS code E87681
348 m
WOODFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE 7E, WOODFIELD ROAD, LONDON, W9 3XZ
ODS code E87741
582 m
THE GARWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PICKERING HOUSE, HALLFIELD ESTATE, LONDON, W2 6HF
ODS code E87009
591 m
ELGIN CLINIC
40 ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 3QT
ODS code E87038
792 m
THE PEMBRIDGE VILLAS SURGERY
45A PEMBRIDGE VILLAS, LONDON, W11 3EP
ODS code E87061
820 m
WESTBOURNE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
241 WESTBOURNE GROVE, LONDON, W11 2SE
ODS code E87007
853 m
MEANWHILE GARDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
UNIT 5, 1-31 ELKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, W10 5NT
ODS code E87026
890 m
LANCASTER GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
LEINSTER TERRACE, LONDON, W2 3ET
ODS code E87722
1.0 km
MAIDA VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 BIDDULPH MANSIONS, ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1HT
ODS code E87010
1.0 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
COLVILLE HEALTH CENTRE
51 KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, LONDON, W11 1PA
ODS code E87067
1.1 km
THE GOLBORNE MEDICAL CENTRE
12-16 GOLBORNE ROAD, LONDON, W10 5PG
ODS code E87024
1.2 km
THE RANDOLPH SURGERY
235A ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1NH
ODS code E87046
1.2 km
PORTOBELLO MEDICAL CENTRE
14 CODRINGTON MEWS, LONDON, W11 2EH
ODS code Y00200
1.2 km
THE NOTTING HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
14 CODRINGTON MEWS, LONDON, W11 2EH
ODS code E87065
1.2 km
HALF PENNY STEPS HEALTH CENTRE
427-429 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W10 4RE
ODS code Y02842
1.2 km
PADDINGTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
4 PRINCESS LOUISE CLOSE, LONDON, W2 1LQ
ODS code E87008
1.3 km
Showing 20 of 133 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Royal Oak
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Royal Oak
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
TMU · Royal Oak
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak Underground Station
MET · Royal Oak
- 0.1 miles
Westminster Academy / Cirencester Street
BCT · Harrow Road
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Westminster 014D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,404 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
19,898 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,658.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,554 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.