Batchwood · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Muriel Green Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Albans
Voluntary aided school
St Albans School
Other independent school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
12 female, 9 male
1,774 residents
797 residents
2,297 residents
2,216 residents
1,058 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
8
within 5 km
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
609 m
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
721 m
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
930 m
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
989 m
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
1.1 km
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
1.9 km
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
2.6 km
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Verulam Road
BCT · St Albans
Oysterfields
BCT · St Michaels Village
Oysterfields
BCT · St Michaels Village
Verulam Road
BCT · St Albans
Downedge
BCT · St Albans
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 009A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,964 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
49 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 8 secondary schools. Muriel Green Nursery School is the nearest published school at 456 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
2,697 published events cover 12 months, averaging 224.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 847 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.