Property market
The five-year median is £1,255,526 from 4 recorded sales in AL2 3FT. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for St Albans is £651,448 in June 2026, up 4.3% year on year.
AL2 3FT
St Stephen · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL2 3FT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL2
- Postcode sector
- AL2 3
- Latitude
- 51.703797
- Longitude
- -0.348312
- British National Grid easting
- 514,231
- British National Grid northing
- 201,852
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- St Stephen · E05013965
- Parish or community
- E04013288
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120451
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 020A · E01023717
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 020 · E02004943
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Ridout End, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3FT | 10 April 2024 | £1,235,000 |
| 1, Ridout End, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3FT | 28 November 2023 | £1,329,995 |
| 2, Ridout End, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3FT | 25 October 2023 | £1,276,053 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.8 km
How Wood Primary and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Park Street Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.1 km
Mount Pleasant Lane Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 260
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 85
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Vehicle crime 27
- Burglary 21
- Other theft 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL2 3 residents
- 8,274
Age bands in AL2 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
1,407 residents
775 residents
1,768 residents
2,435 residents
2,082 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
8
within 5 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
3.2 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
3.4 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
3.8 km
ABBOTSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 KATHERINE PLACE, COLLEGE ROAD, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0BT
ODS code E82105
3.9 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
4.0 km
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
4.0 km
SHEEPCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
6 CUNNINGHAM WAY, WATFORD, WD25 7NL
ODS code E82096
4.6 km
VINE HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
87-89 HIGH STREET, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0AL
ODS code E82046
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Percy Drive
BCT · Smug Oak
- 0.5 miles
Bricket Wood Railway Station
BCT · Bricket Wood
- 0.5 miles
Lye Lane
BCT · Smug Oak
- 0.5 miles
Bricket Wood Railway Station
BCT · Bricket Wood
- 0.5 miles
Lye Lane
BCT · Smug Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 020A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,752 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 4 secondary schools. How Wood Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
260 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 85 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.