Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 8 secondary schools. Links Academy is the nearest published school at 287 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL4 0XN
Hill End · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL4 0XN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 June 2011
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL4
- Postcode sector
- AL4 0
- Latitude
- 51.749108
- Longitude
- -0.297911
- British National Grid easting
- 517,596
- British National Grid northing
- 206,971
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Hill End · E05013956
- Parish or community
- E43000290
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120257
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 021B · E01023677
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 8
- 287 m
Links Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
- 655 m
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School
Academy converter
- 678 m
Beaumont School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,659
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 531
- Anti social behaviour 225
- Shoplifting 218
- Vehicle crime 190
- Criminal damage and arson 127
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.
GP practices
9
within 5 km straight-line
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
2.0 km
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
2.6 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
2.7 km
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
2.8 km
MALTINGS SURGERY
8-14 VICTORIA STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3JB
ODS code E82031
2.8 km
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
2.9 km
HARVEY GROUP PRACTICE
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
3.0 km
LODGE,HIGHFIELD & REDBOURN
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
3.2 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Princess Diana Drive
BCT · Hill End
- 0.1 miles
Princess Diana Drive
BCT · Hill End
- 0.2 miles
Russet Drive
BCT · Hill End
- 0.2 miles
Russet Drive
BCT · Hill End
- 0.2 miles
Wynches Farm Drive
BCT · Oaklands
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 021B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,021 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,659 published events cover 12 months, averaging 138.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 531 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.