Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 8 secondary schools. St Peter's School is the nearest published school at 553 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL1 1PN
Sopwell · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL1 1PN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2024
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL1
- Postcode sector
- AL1 1
- Latitude
- 51.744286
- Longitude
- -0.327860
- British National Grid easting
- 515,541
- British National Grid northing
- 206,387
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Sopwell · E05013963
- Parish or community
- E43000290
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120543
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 017E · E01023741
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 017 · E02004940
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 AL1
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 222, Unit 9, London Road, St Albans, AL1 1PN | 30 October 2020 | £6,000,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 8
- 553 m
St Peter's School
Community school
- 647 m
St Albans Independent College
Other independent school
- 827 m
St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,159
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,189
- Anti social behaviour 647
- Shoplifting 612
- Vehicle crime 336
- Other theft 295
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL1 1 residents
- 6,080
Age bands in AL1 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.7%
1,050 residents
347 residents
1,979 residents
1,423 residents
896 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
366 m
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
1.1 km
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
1.4 km
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
1.4 km
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
1.6 km
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
2.0 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
2.2 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
2.8 km
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Grosvenor Road
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
Grosvenor Road
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Cunningham Avenue
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Cunningham Avenue
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Alma Road
BCT · St Albans
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 017E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,707 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 11
- 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
4,159 published events cover 12 months, averaging 346.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,189 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.