Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 8 secondary schools. Verulam School is the nearest published school at 329 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL1 4BF
Clarence · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL1 4BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL1
- Postcode sector
- AL1 4
- Latitude
- 51.758217
- Longitude
- -0.317926
- British National Grid easting
- 516,191
- British National Grid northing
- 207,952
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Clarence · E05013949
- Parish or community
- E43000290
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120239
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 011C · E01023675
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 011 · E02004934
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
- 52
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 8
- 329 m
Verulam School
Academy converter
- 696 m
Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 718 m
Fleetville Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,935
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 876
- Anti social behaviour 456
- Vehicle crime 302
- Shoplifting 278
- Other theft 242
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL1 4 residents
- 9,635
Age bands in AL1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.2%
2,117 residents
950 residents
2,381 residents
2,858 residents
1,489 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
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
1.1 km
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
1.2 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
1.3 km
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
1.6 km
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
1.6 km
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
1.6 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
3.7 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
3.9 km
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.1 miles
Blenheim Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.2 miles
Blenheim Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.2 miles
Homewood Road
BCT · Fleetville
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 011C, 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
32,639 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,935 published events cover 12 months, averaging 244.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 876 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.