Property market
The five-year median is £440,874 from 8 recorded sales in AL4 0LW. 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.
AL4 0LW
Colney Heath · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL4 0LW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL4
- Postcode sector
- AL4 0
- Latitude
- 51.738583
- Longitude
- -0.246862
- British National Grid easting
- 521,148
- British National Grid northing
- 205,884
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Colney Heath · E05013950
- Parish or community
- E04013283
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120251
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 021C · E01035581
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 021 · E02007090
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 AL4
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 21, Salix Place, Colney Heath, St Albans, AL4 0LW | 21 November 2025 | £550,000 |
| 24, Salix Place, Colney Heath, St Albans, AL4 0LW | 6 October 2025 | £675,000 |
| 23, Salix Place, Colney Heath, St Albans, AL4 0LW | 25 September 2025 | £675,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.1 km
Colney Heath Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
University of Hertfordshire
Higher education institutions
- 1.7 km
St Mary's Church of England VA Primary School, Welham Green
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 799
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 331
- Anti social behaviour 116
- Other theft 87
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Vehicle crime 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL4 0 residents
- 10,462
Age bands in AL4 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.8%
2,193 residents
1,159 residents
2,300 residents
3,009 residents
1,386 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
2.9 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
2.9 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
3.2 km
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
3.4 km
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
4.0 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hall Gardens
BCT · Colney Heath
- 0.1 miles
Hall Gardens
BCT · Colney Heath
- 0.2 miles
Fellowes Lane
BCT · Colney Heath
- 0.2 miles
Fellowes Lane
BCT · Colney Heath
- 0.3 miles
Roestock Lane
BCT · Colney Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 021C, 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
19,595 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Colney Heath Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
799 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 331 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.