Sopwell · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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St Adrian Roman Catholic Primary School
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Census 2021
20 female, 15 male
1,503 residents
715 residents
1,917 residents
1,676 residents
1,018 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL1 2 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
931 m
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
1.4 km
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
1.6 km
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
1.6 km
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
2.0 km
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
2.1 km
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
2.2 km
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
3.5 km
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
3.7 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Doggetts Way
BCT · Cottonmill
Doggetts Way
BCT · Cottonmill
Maynard Drive
BCT · Cottonmill
Vesta Avenue
BCT · St Julians
Tavistock Avenue
BCT · St Julians
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 017A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,691 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
51 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 8 secondary schools. The Marlborough Science Academy is the nearest published school at 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
2,497 published events cover 12 months, averaging 208.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 662 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.