Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Beechwood Park School is the nearest published school at 121 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL3 8NW
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 8NW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 8
- Latitude
- 51.819666
- Longitude
- -0.486339
- British National Grid easting
- 504,426
- British National Grid northing
- 214,531
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
- E00119019
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 001B · E01023431
- 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
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 121 m
Beechwood Park School
Other independent school
- 1.6 km
Gaddesden Row JMI School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Markyate Village School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 28
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Public order 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Drugs 1
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Ballingdon Farm
BCT · Jockey End
- 0.5 miles
Ballingdon Farm
BCT · Jockey End
- 0.6 miles
Bradden Lane
BCT · Jockey End
- 0.6 miles
Bradden Lane
BCT · Jockey End
- 1.0 miles
Whitehouse Farm
BCT · Jockey End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 001B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,402 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Recorded crime
28 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.