Property market
The five-year median is £475,000 from 1 recorded sale in AL2 3PN. 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 3PN
St Stephen · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL2 3PN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL2
- Postcode sector
- AL2 3
- Latitude
- 51.706550
- Longitude
- -0.352278
- British National Grid easting
- 513,950
- British National Grid northing
- 202,152
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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Smug Oak Lane, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3PN | 17 January 2025 | £475,000 |
| 7, Smug Oak Lane, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3PN | 7 August 2019 | £560,000 |
| Butterfoal Stud & Tack Shop, Smug Oak Lane, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3PN | 6 September 2018 | £675,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.6 km
How Wood Primary and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Park Street Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.9 km
Mount Pleasant Lane Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 354
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 115
- Anti social behaviour 84
- Burglary 28
- Vehicle crime 26
- Other theft 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- AL2 3 residents
- 8,274
9 female, 17 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL2 3 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+
- 69.2%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 69.2%
- 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 straight-line
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
3.0 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
3.6 km
ABBOTSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 KATHERINE PLACE, COLLEGE ROAD, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0BT
ODS code E82105
3.6 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
3.8 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
4.1 km
SHEEPCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
6 CUNNINGHAM WAY, WATFORD, WD25 7NL
ODS code E82096
4.4 km
VINE HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
87-89 HIGH STREET, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0AL
ODS code E82046
4.6 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Percy Drive
BCT · Smug Oak
- 0.2 miles
Lye Lane
BCT · Smug Oak
- 0.2 miles
Lye Lane
BCT · Smug Oak
- 0.3 miles
Green
BCT · Smug Oak
- 0.3 miles
Green
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.
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
- 1
- 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
50 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 4 secondary schools. How Wood Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
354 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 115 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.