Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 2 secondary schools. Clore Shalom School is the nearest published school at 923 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL2 1DU
Shenley · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL2 1DU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 February 2004
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL2
- Postcode sector
- AL2 1
- Latitude
- 51.711953
- Longitude
- -0.284975
- British National Grid easting
- 518,586
- British National Grid northing
- 202,860
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 2
- 923 m
Clore Shalom School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
Saint Bernadette Voluntary Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Bowmansgreen Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,053
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 363
- Violence and sexual offences 247
- Shoplifting 172
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Public order 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL2 1 residents
- 9,815
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
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
1.6 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
1.9 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
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 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
The Bell Roundabout
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,053 published events cover 12 months, averaging 87.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 363 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.