Property market
The five-year median is £703,000 from 2 recorded sales in AL3 6JF. 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 6JF
Sandridge & Wheathampstead · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- St Albans
- Local authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL3 6JF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 6
- Latitude
- 51.781900
- Longitude
- -0.329716
- British National Grid easting
- 515,317
- British National Grid northing
- 210,567
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Sandridge & Wheathampstead · E05013962
- Parish or community
- E04013286
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120526
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 007D · E01023736
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 007 · E02004930
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Greens, Sandridgebury Lane, Sandridge, St Albans, AL3 6JF | 12 August 2025 | £1,390,000 |
| Berry Farm, Plots 1, 2, 3 And 4, Sandridgebury Lane, Sandridge, St Albans, AL3 6JF | 15 March 2022 | £16,000 |
| Plot 68, Sandridgebury Lane, Sandridge, St Albans, AL3 6JF | 14 October 2019 | £6,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 10
- 1.3 km
Townsend Church of England School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
St Albans Girls' School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Margaret Wix Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 290
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 105
- Anti social behaviour 50
- Shoplifting 27
- Other theft 26
- Vehicle crime 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- AL3 6 residents
- 4,579
5 female, 3 male
Age bands in AL3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
1,027 residents
614 residents
1,194 residents
1,346 residents
723 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL3 6 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+
- 0%
- 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
- 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
2.6 km
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
2.8 km
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
2.8 km
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
3.2 km
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
3.4 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
3.8 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
4.1 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
4.2 km
ELMS MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Hawkswick Lodge Farm
BCT · St Albans
- 0.4 miles
Hawkswick Lodge Farm
BCT · St Albans
- 0.5 miles
Hawkswick
BCT · St Albans
- 0.5 miles
Hawkswick
BCT · St Albans
- 0.6 miles
Texaco Garage
BCT · New Greens
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 007D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,085 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
59 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 10 secondary schools. Townsend Church of England School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
290 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 105 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.