Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 7 secondary schools. Aldwickbury School is the nearest published school at 623 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL5 1HZ
Harpenden South · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harpenden South
- 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 1HZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 1
- Latitude
- 51.810856
- Longitude
- -0.321639
- British National Grid easting
- 515,800
- British National Grid northing
- 213,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Harpenden South · E05013954
- Parish or community
- E04013284
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120599
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 004D · E01023749
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 004 · E02004927
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
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 7
- 623 m
Aldwickbury School
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
High Beeches Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
The Grove Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 256
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 75
- Vehicle crime 42
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Other theft 23
- Burglary 19
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
ELMS MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
2.3 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
2.3 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Long Buftlers
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.2 miles
Wheathampsted Road
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.5 miles
Leycroft Way
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.5 miles
Greenway
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.6 miles
Cherry Trees Restaurant
BCT · Marshalls Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 004D, 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
33,026 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
256 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 75 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.