Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 8 secondary schools. Verulam School is the nearest published school at 393 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL1 4HL
Clarence · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL1 4HL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL1
- Postcode sector
- AL1 4
- Latitude
- 51.758530
- Longitude
- -0.319016
- British National Grid easting
- 516,115
- British National Grid northing
- 207,985
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22, Sandpit Lane, St Albans, AL1 4HL | 7 November 2013 | £1,675,000 |
| 20a, Sandpit Lane, St Albans, AL1 4HL | 28 September 2012 | £975,000 |
| 22, Sandpit Lane, St. Albans, AL1 4HL | 8 December 2004 | £1,250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 8
- 393 m
Verulam School
Academy converter
- 614 m
Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 789 m
Fleetville Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,052
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 901
- Anti social behaviour 462
- Shoplifting 315
- Vehicle crime 302
- Other theft 250
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- AL1 4 residents
- 9,635
4 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL1 4 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.
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
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
1.5 km
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
1.5 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
4.2 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
Blenheim Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.1 miles
Blenheim Road
BCT · Fleetville
- 0.3 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.
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
- 0
- 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
3,052 published events cover 12 months, averaging 254.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 901 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.