Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Flamstead Village School is the nearest published school at 707 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL3 8BZ
Watling · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Watling
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL3 8BZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 8
- Latitude
- 51.822323
- Longitude
- -0.435843
- British National Grid easting
- 507,900
- British National Grid northing
- 214,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Watling · E05004714
- Parish or community
- E04004700
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00119016
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 001A · E01023430
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 001 · E02004856
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
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 707 m
Flamstead Village School
Community school
- 2.8 km
Markyate Village School and Nursery
Community school
- 3.0 km
St Luke's School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 189
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 67
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Other theft 26
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Vehicle crime 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL3 8 residents
- 4,747
Age bands in AL3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.8%
920 residents
450 residents
1,184 residents
1,403 residents
855 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
WOODHALL FARM MEDICAL CTR
VALLEY GREEN, SHENLEY ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 7RJ
ODS code E82070
4.6 km
CADDINGTON SURGERY
33 MANOR ROAD, CADDINGTON, LUTON, LU1 4EE
ODS code E81069
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Bungalow
BCT · Flamstead
- 0.2 miles
The Bungalow
BCT · Flamstead
- 0.2 miles
The Three Blackbirds PH
BCT · Flamstead
- 0.2 miles
The Three Blackbirds PH
BCT · Flamstead
- 0.4 miles
Village School
BCT · Flamstead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 001A, 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
24,403 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
189 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 67 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.