Property market
The five-year median is £1,250,000 from 1 recorded sale in AL3 8QG. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dacorum is £459,438 in June 2026, up 1.8% year on year.
AL3 8QG
Watling · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL3 8QG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL3
- Postcode sector
- AL3 8
- Latitude
- 51.850082
- Longitude
- -0.460521
- British National Grid easting
- 506,134
- British National Grid northing
- 217,951
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Watling · E05004714
- Parish or community
- E04004705
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00119030
- 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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Magnolia House, Pipers Lane, Markyate, St Albans, AL3 8QG | 28 November 2022 | £1,250,000 |
| Ferrers Hill Farm, 5, Pipers Lane, Markyate, St Albans, AL3 8QG | 1 July 2015 | £895,000 |
| Ferrers Hill Farm, 4, Pipers Lane, Markyate, St. Albans, AL3 8QG | 30 November 2007 | £800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.4 km
Markyate Village School and Nursery
Community school
- 1.7 km
Caddington Village School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Slip End Village School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 217
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 106
- Anti social behaviour 50
- Other theft 13
- Vehicle crime 12
- Burglary 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- AL3 8 residents
- 4,747
6 female, 7 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL3 8 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+
- 71.4%
- 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
11
within 5 km
CADDINGTON SURGERY
33 MANOR ROAD, CADDINGTON, LUTON, LU1 4EE
ODS code E81069
1.6 km
THE MEDICI MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 WINDSOR STREET, LUTON, LU1 3UA
ODS code E81073
4.0 km
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
27 CASTLE STREET, LUTON, LU1 3AG
ODS code E81013
4.2 km
BUTE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
GROVE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1RW
ODS code E81048
4.2 km
THE TOWN CENTRE PRACTICE
14-16 CHAPEL STREET, LUTON, LU1 2SE
ODS code Y02463
4.3 km
LEA VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 MERSEY PLACE, LIVERPOOL ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1HH
ODS code E81032
4.4 km
BELL HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
163 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1BW
ODS code E81005
4.4 km
CONWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
385 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8BY
ODS code E81063
4.6 km
KINGSWAY & BRAMINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
KINGSWAY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 385 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8BY
ODS code Y02332
4.6 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
473-475 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8DG
ODS code E81016
4.7 km
MALZEARD ROAD PRACTICE
2A MALZEARD ROAD, LUTON, LU3 1BD
ODS code E81631
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Chapel
BCT · Aley Green
- 0.5 miles
Pipers Lane
BCT · Aley Green
- 0.5 miles
Caddington Hall
BCT · Markyate
- 0.5 miles
Pipers Lane
BCT · Aley Green
- 0.5 miles
Caddington Hall
BCT · Markyate
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.
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
- 1
- 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
35 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Markyate Village School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
217 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 106 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.