Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies 1.4 mi (2.3 km) north of Charing Cross.

From 1856 the area was governed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, which was established to provide services across the metropolis of London.

It covered the combined area of the three metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, and St Pancras, which were all abolished.

[6] The initial Herbert Commission report recommended that the new borough consist of St Pancras and Hampstead, but Holborn was later added.

[8][9] The transcribed diaries of William Copeland Astbury, recently made available, describe Camden and the surrounding areas in great detail from 1829 to 1848.

[10][11] There are 162 English Heritage blue plaques[12] in the borough of Camden representing the many diverse personalities that have lived there.

[13] The area of the old parish and borough of Hampstead in the north-west includes Belsize Park and part of Kilburn.

The economy and land uses of the West End[14][15][16] and other southern parts of the borough reflect their more central location.

When the railways arrived the rate of population growth slowed, for while many people were drawn in by new employment, others were made homeless by the new central London termini and construction of lines through the district.

The population peaked at 376,500 in the 1890s, after which official efforts began to clear the overcrowded slums around St Pancras and Holborn.

It has now begun to rise again with new housing developments on brownfield sites and the release of railway and gas work lands around Kings Cross.

In 2006, Dame Julia Neuberger's book reported similar variation as a characteristic of Camden's children's health services.

The included Central Saint Martins, the Francis Crick Institute, as well as the planned move by Moorfields Eye Hospital, recently unveiled as Project Oriel.

The position of the railway termini on Euston Road, rather than in a more central position further south, is a result of the influential recommendations of the 1846 Royal Commission on Metropolitan Railway Termini that sought to protect the West End districts a short distance south of the road.

Since 14 November 2007 when St Pancras International became the new terminus of Eurostar, a major regeneration of the area has occurred with the King's Cross Central development happening behind the station.

Between them, the termini are served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines.

As well as the two major termini stations, the borough's other stations are: Euston Square, Warren Street, Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, Holborn, Russell Square, Chancery Lane, Mornington Crescent, Camden Town, Chalk Farm, Belsize Park, Hampstead, West Hampstead, Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage and Kentish Town.

The proposed High Speed 2 railway line to northern England is intended to terminate at Euston Station.

[42] The formerly proposed Cross River Tram was going to start in the borough of Camden but was scrapped by the former Mayor of London Boris Johnson in 2008.

The 2011 census found that the main forms of transport that residents used to travel to work were: underground, metro, light rail, tram, 21.5% of all residents aged 16–74; on foot, 9.2%; bus, minibus or coach, 9.2%; driving a car or van, 6.3%; work mainly at or from home, 5.2%; train, 4.1%; bicycle, 4.1%.

From 16 December 2013, Camden Council introduced a borough-wide speed limit of 20 miles per hour (32 km/h),[45][46] as of 2022, this was expanded to Transport for London red routes.