Property market
The five-year median is £253,000 from 3 recorded sales in AL3 5RW. 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.
AL3 5RW
Batchwood · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL3 5RW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 5
- Latitude
- 51.764513
- Longitude
- -0.341401
- British National Grid easting
- 514,555
- British National Grid northing
- 208,615
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
- E00120221
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 009D · E01023672
- 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
Property
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Grimthorpe Close, St Albans, AL3 5RW | 18 June 2024 | £211,500 |
| 9, Grimthorpe Close, St Albans, AL3 5RW | 1 August 2023 | £253,000 |
| 10, Grimthorpe Close, St Albans, AL3 5RW | 1 December 2021 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 8
- 132 m
Batchwood School
Community special school
- 273 m
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School
Academy converter
- 661 m
Heathlands School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,423
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 793
- Anti social behaviour 362
- Shoplifting 256
- Other theft 188
- Criminal damage and arson 160
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 53
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- AL3 5 residents
- 8,729
24 female, 29 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL3 5 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
7
within 5 km
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
523 m
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
889 m
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
1.0 km
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
1.2 km
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
1.4 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
2.2 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
3.5 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
- 0.1 miles
Alverton
BCT · New Greens
- 0.1 miles
Batchwood Hall
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
Batchwood Hall
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Hospital
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Batchwood Drive
BCT · St Albans
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 009D, 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
24,833 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
50 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 8 secondary schools. Batchwood School is the nearest published school at 132 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,423 published events cover 12 months, averaging 201.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 793 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.