Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 8 secondary schools. Batchwood School is the nearest published school at 503 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL3 5ST
Batchwood · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL3 5ST
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2015
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 5
- Latitude
- 51.762451
- Longitude
- -0.345665
- British National Grid easting
- 514,266
- British National Grid northing
- 208,379
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
- E00120206
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 8
- 503 m
Batchwood School
Community special school
- 606 m
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School
Academy converter
- 829 m
Muriel Green Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,480
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 799
- Anti social behaviour 376
- Shoplifting 291
- Other theft 185
- Criminal damage and arson 168
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
409 m
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
887 m
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
999 m
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
1.0 km
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
1.3 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
2.1 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Batchwood Drive
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
Batchwood Drive
BCT · St Albans
- 0.1 miles
Hospital
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Batchwood Hall
BCT · St Albans
- 0.2 miles
Hospital
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,480 published events cover 12 months, averaging 206.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 799 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.