Property market
The five-year median is £380,000 from 1 recorded sale in AL2 1DF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Hertsmere is £560,436 in June 2026, up 2.6% year on year.
AL2 1DF
Shenley · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL2 1DF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL2
- Postcode sector
- AL2 1
- Latitude
- 51.712109
- Longitude
- -0.286996
- British National Grid easting
- 518,446
- British National Grid northing
- 202,874
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Shenley · E05012192
- Parish or community
- E04004765
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119771
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 004C · E01023583
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 004 · E02004899
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 AL2
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Old Cottages, 3, Bell Lane, London Colney, St Albans, AL2 1DF | 3 June 2026 | £380,000 |
| Old Cottages, 2, Bell Lane, London Colney, St Albans, AL2 1DF | 30 June 2021 | £340,000 |
| Old Cottages, 3, Bell Lane, London Colney, St Albans, AL2 1DF | 28 August 2015 | £284,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 2
- 900 m
Clore Shalom School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Saint Bernadette Voluntary Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Bowmansgreen Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,080
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 365
- Violence and sexual offences 255
- Shoplifting 172
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Public order 46
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- AL2 1 residents
- 9,815
5 female, 5 male
Age bands in AL2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
1,842 residents
1,089 residents
2,662 residents
2,713 residents
1,497 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL2 1 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
4
within 5 km
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
1.5 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
1.8 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
3.9 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
4.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bell Lane Cottages
BCT · London Colney
- 0.1 miles
Bell Lane Cottages
BCT · London Colney
- 0.3 miles
Colney Fields Retail Park
BCT · London Colney
- 0.3 miles
Colney Fields Retail Park
BCT · London Colney
- 0.4 miles
Shenleybury Lane
BCT · London Colney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 004C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,058 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 2 secondary schools. Clore Shalom School is the nearest published school at 900 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,080 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 365 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.