Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 8 secondary schools. Batchwood School is the nearest published school at 507 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL3 5FG
Batchwood · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL3 5FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 5
- Latitude
- 51.761313
- Longitude
- -0.343373
- British National Grid easting
- 514,427
- British National Grid northing
- 208,256
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Batchwood · E05013947
- Parish or community
- E43000290
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120222
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 009B · E01023670
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 009 · E02004932
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 AL3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 8
- 507 m
Batchwood School
Community special school
- 531 m
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School
Academy converter
- 691 m
Muriel Green Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,713
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 881
- Anti social behaviour 418
- Shoplifting 301
- Other theft 201
- Criminal damage and arson 184
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL3 5 residents
- 8,729
Age bands in AL3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13%
1,774 residents
797 residents
2,297 residents
2,216 residents
1,058 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
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
209 m
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
684 m
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
825 m
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
827 m
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
1.1 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
1.9 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
3.2 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Hospital
BCT · St Albans
- 0.0 miles
Hospital
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
City Hospital
BCT · Townsend
- 0.1 miles
Goldsmith Way
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Goldsmith Way
BCT · St Albans
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 009B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,445 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
2,713 published events cover 12 months, averaging 226.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 881 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.