Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Grove Junior School is the nearest published school at 513 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL5 1FB
Harpenden West · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harpenden West
- Local authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL5 1FB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 1
- Latitude
- 51.807798
- Longitude
- -0.345034
- British National Grid easting
- 514,195
- British National Grid northing
- 213,423
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Harpenden West · E05013955
- Parish or community
- E04013284
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120362
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 003C · E01023701
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 003 · E02004926
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 AL5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 7
- 513 m
The Grove Junior School
Community school
- 576 m
The Grove Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 606 m
St Dominic Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 792
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 164
- Shoplifting 147
- Anti social behaviour 123
- Vehicle crime 99
- Other theft 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL5 1 residents
- 6,414
Age bands in AL5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,300 residents
509 residents
1,355 residents
1,756 residents
1,195 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
3
within 5 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
1.1 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
1.1 km
ELMS MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
1.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Plough and Harrow PH
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.0 miles
The Plough and Harrow PH
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Churchfield
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Queens Road
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.2 miles
Queens Road
BCT · Harpenden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 003C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,146 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
792 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.