Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 8 secondary schools. Alban City School is the nearest published school at 312 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL1 3LS
St Peters · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL1 3LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL1
- Postcode sector
- AL1 3
- Latitude
- 51.751956
- Longitude
- -0.336052
- British National Grid easting
- 514,956
- British National Grid northing
- 207,227
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- St Peters · E05013964
- Parish or community
- E43000290
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120479
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 012B · E01023727
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 012 · E02004935
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 8
- 312 m
Alban City School
Free schools
- 380 m
St Albans Independent College
Other independent school
- 390 m
Aboyne Lodge Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,743
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,072
- Anti social behaviour 597
- Shoplifting 435
- Other theft 308
- Vehicle crime 276
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL1 3 residents
- 5,821
Age bands in AL1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 47.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.1%
1,029 residents
524 residents
3,186 residents
1,344 residents
608 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
9
within 5 km
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
128 m
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
373 m
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
534 m
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
595 m
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
828 m
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
953 m
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
2.4 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
3.8 km
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
4.1 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Police Station
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
Police Station
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
St Peter's Street
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
St Peter's Street
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
St Peter's Street
BCT · St Albans
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 012B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,509 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,743 published events cover 12 months, averaging 311.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,072 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.