N7
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Lower Holloway, Tufnell Park and Finsbury Park, in Islington.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an N7 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in N7 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How N7 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is N7 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in N7 at a rate of 172.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 130.0 per 1,000 people across the N postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 842 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in N7.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (2,458), violence and sexual offences (2,117) and other crime (1,423).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in N7 was 172.1 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in N7, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so N7 has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in N7
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Islington 005A | 1,807 | 254.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.1% |
| Islington 005C | 1,477 | 152.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.9% |
| Islington 005D | 1,947 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.3% |
| Islington 005E | 1,837 | 72.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.5% |
| Islington 007A | 1,753 | 114.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.3% |
| Islington 007C | 1,440 | 219.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.2% |
| Islington 007D | 1,302 | 401.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.4% |
| Islington 007E | 1,574 | 308.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 76.6% |
| Islington 007F | 1,282 | 655.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.5% |
| Islington 008C | 1,822 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Islington 010A | 1,816 | 121.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Islington 010B | 1,701 | 133.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Islington 010C | 1,755 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
| Islington 010D | 1,941 | 90.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.2% |
| Islington 010E | 1,472 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| Islington 011C | 1,872 | 157.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Islington 011D | 2,151 | 181.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.9% |
| Islington 011E | 1,034 | 178.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.3% |
| Islington 011F | 1,199 | 113.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Islington 011G | 1,644 | 87.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.9% |
| Islington 011H | 1,932 | 459.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.5% |
| Islington 011K | 1,163 | 170.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.0% |
| Islington 013D | 1,935 | 421.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.7% |
| Islington 013E | 1,109 | 121.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Islington 015B | 1,378 | 123.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 81.6% |
| Islington 015C | 2,812 | 154.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.4% |
| Islington 015D | 2,857 | 122.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 81.4% |
| Islington 015E | 2,180 | 126.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
MPs for N7
- Jeremy CorbynYour PartyMP for Islington North51% of N7’s postcodes
- Emily ThornberryLabourMP for Islington South and Finsbury47% of N7’s postcodes
- Sagal Abdi-WaliLabourMP for Holborn and St Pancras1.9% of N7’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
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Council1
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Nearest rail stations4
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N7 in brief
N7 is a postcode district covering Lower Holloway, Tufnell Park and Finsbury Park, in Islington.
About 51,913 people lived in N7 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £599,000 in 2025 across 375 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 172.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in N7 was £599,000 in 2025.
N7 had 50,039 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in N7 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In N7, 91.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.