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WC2H 8JA lies on Shaftesbury Avenue in London. WC2H 8JA is located in the Holborn & Covent Garden electoral ward, within the London borough of Camden and the English Parliamentary constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. The Sub Integrated Care Board (ICB) Location is NHS North Central London ICB - 93C and the police force is Metropolitan Police. This postcode has been in use since January 1980.

Where is WC2H 8JA?

Street	Shaftesbury Avenue
Town/City	London
Country	England
Postcode District	WC2H

WC2H 8JA Elevation

Elevation or altitude of WC2H 8JA as distance above sea level:

	Metres	Feet
Elevation	20m	66ft

Elevation is measured from the approximate centre of the postcode, to the nearest point on an OS contour line from OS Terrain 50, which has contour spacing of ten vertical metres.

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Politics

Ward	Holborn & Covent Garden
Constituency	Holborn And St Pancras

Transport

Nearest bus stops to WC2H 8JA

Cambridge Circus	Soho	18m
Cambridge Circus (Charing Cross Road)	Soho	72m
Denmark Street (Charing Cross Road)	Soho	128m
Cambridge Circus (Charing Cross Road)	Soho	136m
Gerrard Place Chinatown	Soho	186m

Nearest underground/metro/tram to WC2H 8JA

Leicester Square Underground Station	Leicester Square	258m
Covent Garden Underground Station	Covent Garden	275m
Tottenham Court Road Underground Station	Tottenham Court Road	337m
Piccadilly Circus Underground Station	Piccadilly Circus	559m
Holborn Underground Station	Holborn	692m

Nearest railway stations to WC2H 8JA

London Charing Cross Station	0.7km
London Waterloo Station	1.6km
London Euston Station	1.7km

Broadband

Broadband access in WC2H 8JA (2020 data)

Percentage of properties with Next Generation Access	100.0%
Percentage of properties with Superfast Broadband	100.0%
Percentage of properties with Ultrafast Broadband	100.0%
Percentage of properties with Full Fibre Broadband	0.0%

Superfast Broadband is between 30Mbps and 300Mbps
Ultrafast Broadband is > 300Mbps

Broadband speed in WC2H 8JA (2019 data)

Download

Median download speed	100.0Mbps
Average download speed	104.0Mbps
Maximum download speed	150.00Mbps

Upload

Ofcom does not currently provide upload speed data for WC2H 8JA. This is because there are less than four broadband connections in this postcode.

Broadband limitations in WC2H 8JA (2020 data)

Percentage of properties unable to receive 2Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 5Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 10Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 30Mbps	0.0%

WC2H 8JA gas and electricity consumption

Estimated total energy consumption in WC2H 8JA by fuel type, 2015.

Gas

Consumption (kWh)	49,801
Meter count	6
Mean (kWh/meter)	8,300
Median (kWh/meter)	7,688

Electricity

Consumption (kWh)	12,108
Meter count	7
Mean (kWh/meter)	1,730
Median (kWh/meter)	1,752

• Consumption: The estimated total energy consumption, in kWh, across all meters in WC2H 8JA, for 2015.
• Meter count: The total number of meters in WC2H 8JA.
• Mean: The mean average consumption per meter, in kWh.
• Median: The median average consumption per meter, in kWh.

Deprivation

60.7% of English postcodes are less deprived than WC2H 8JA:

Food Standards Agency

Three nearest food hygiene ratings to WC2H 8JA (metres)

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Nearest post box to WC2H 8JA

	Last Collection
Location	Mon-Fri	Sat	Distance
Upper St Martins Lane	18:30	12:00	199m
Shaftesbury Avenue	18:30	12:00	211m
Charing X Road (Goslett Yd)	18:30	12:00	215m

WC2H 8JA ITL and WC2H 8JA LAU

The below table lists the International Territorial Level (ITL) codes (formerly Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) codes) and Local Administrative Units (LAU) codes for WC2H 8JA:

ITL 1 Code	Name
TLI	London
ITL 2 Code	Name
TLI3	Inner London - West
ITL 3 Code	Name
TLI31	Camden and City of London
LAU 1 Code	Name
E09000007	Camden

WC2H 8JA census areas

The below table lists the Census Output Area (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), and Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) for WC2H 8JA:

	Code	Name
OA	E00004530
LSOA	E01000919	Camden 028D
MSOA	E02000193	Camden 028

Nearest postcodes to WC2H 8JA

WC2H 9RY	Earlham Street	38m
WC2H 9RZ	Earlham Street	38m
WC2H 8AD	Shaftesbury Avenue	47m
WC2H 9NP	Tower Street	48m
WC2H 9LN	Earlham Street	59m
WC2H 0JE	Charing Cross Road	62m
WC2H 8HD	Shaftesbury Avenue	63m
WC2H 9QS	Mercer Street	64m
WC2H 9NU	Tower Court	74m
WC2H 9NE	West Street	78m