Harpenden South · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Cross Lane, Harpenden, AL5 1BX | 16 June 2021 | £1,470,000 |
| 5, Cross Lane, Harpenden, AL5 1BX | 12 December 2014 | £2,200,000 |
| 5, Cross Lane, Harpenden, AL5 1BX | 2 September 2011 | £1,905,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
The Grove Infant and Nursery School
Community school
The Grove Junior School
Community school
St Dominic Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
6 female, 8 male
1,300 residents
509 residents
1,355 residents
1,756 residents
1,195 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL5 1 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km straight-line
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
2.0 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
2.1 km
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
2.3 km
NORMANDY ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NP
ODS code E82014
4.4 km
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
4.7 km
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
4.8 km
13-15 RUSSELL AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5HB
ODS code E82084
5.0 km
Burnsall Place
BCT · Harpenden
Eastcote Drive
BCT · Harpenden
Cross Lane
BCT · Hatching Green
Broadstone Road
BCT · Harpenden
Cross Lane
BCT · Hatching Green
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 005D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,716 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
44 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Grove Infant and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
293 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 78 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.