Schools
352 open schools are in scope, including 144 primary and 33 secondary schools. Westminster Academy is the nearest published school at 50 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
W2 5HA
Westbourne · Westminster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- 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 5HA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- W
- Postcode district
- W2
- Postcode sector
- W2 5
- Latitude
- 51.520984
- Longitude
- -0.191676
- British National Grid easting
- 525,557
- British National Grid northing
- 181,779
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
Property
35 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oldbury House, Flat 18, Harrow Road, London, W2 5HA | 3 August 2018 | £500,000 |
| Oldbury House, Flat 29, Harrow Road, London, W2 5HA | 28 June 2016 | £490,000 |
| Oldbury House, Flat 10, Harrow Road, London, W2 5HA | 11 November 2013 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 352
- Primary
- 144
- Secondary
- 33
- 50 m
Westminster Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 156 m
Edward Wilson Primary School
Community school
- 218 m
St Mary Magdalene & St Stephen's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20,718
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,856
- Anti social behaviour 2,562
- Other theft 2,534
- Shoplifting 1,818
- Theft from the person 1,638
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 89
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- W2 5 residents
- 10,745
47 female, 42 male
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
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider W2 5 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
134
within 5 km
THE WESTBOURNE GREEN SURGERY
HEALTH AT THE STOWE, 260 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W2 5ES
ODS code Y00902
15 m
GRAND UNION HEALTH CENTRE
209 HARROW ROAD, PADDINGTON, LONDON, W2 5EH
ODS code E87637
113 m
WOODFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE 7E, WOODFIELD ROAD, LONDON, W9 3XZ
ODS code E87741
452 m
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BAYSWATER CENTRE 14-18, NEWTON ROAD, LONDON, W2 5LT
ODS code E87681
524 m
ELGIN CLINIC
40 ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 3QT
ODS code E87038
635 m
THE GARWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PICKERING HOUSE, HALLFIELD ESTATE, LONDON, W2 6HF
ODS code E87009
757 m
MEANWHILE GARDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
UNIT 5, 1-31 ELKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, W10 5NT
ODS code E87026
805 m
MAIDA VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 BIDDULPH MANSIONS, ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1HT
ODS code E87010
852 m
WESTBOURNE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
241 WESTBOURNE GROVE, LONDON, W11 2SE
ODS code E87007
959 m
THE PEMBRIDGE VILLAS SURGERY
45A PEMBRIDGE VILLAS, LONDON, W11 3EP
ODS code E87061
964 m
THE RANDOLPH SURGERY
235A ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1NH
ODS code E87046
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
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
COLVILLE HEALTH CENTRE
51 KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, LONDON, W11 1PA
ODS code E87067
1.2 km
LANCASTER GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
LEINSTER TERRACE, LONDON, W2 3ET
ODS code E87722
1.2 km
SRIKRISHNAMURTHY HARROW ROAD SURGERY
574 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W10 4NJ
ODS code E87751
1.2 km
GOLBORNE CANALSIDE HEALTH CENTRE
175A KENSAL ROAD, LONDON, W10 5DD
ODS code E87742
1.2 km
Showing 20 of 134 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Westminster Academy / Cirencester Street
BCT · Harrow Road
- 0.0 miles
Westminster Academy / Cirencester Street
BCT · Harrow Road
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Royal Oak
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Royal Oak
- 0.2 miles
Sutherland Avenue Westbourne Green
BCT · Westbourne Green
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.
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
- 30
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
20,718 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,726.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,856 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.