Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Wood End School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL5 3PX
Harpenden North & Rural · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL5 3PX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2017
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 3
- Latitude
- 51.831637
- Longitude
- -0.411617
- British National Grid easting
- 509,547
- British National Grid northing
- 215,972
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Harpenden North & Rural · E05013953
- Parish or community
- E04004804
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120457
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 006D · E01023725
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 006 · E02004929
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
- 31
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 2.2 km
Wood End School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Claystone School
Other independent special school
- 2.5 km
Flamstead Village School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 59
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 23
- Vehicle crime 10
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Public order 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL5 3 residents
- 5,030
Age bands in AL5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
1,236 residents
467 residents
963 residents
1,518 residents
844 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
4.2 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
4.3 km
ELMS MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
4.3 km
THE MEDICI MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 WINDSOR STREET, LUTON, LU1 3UA
ODS code E81073
4.8 km
CADDINGTON SURGERY
33 MANOR ROAD, CADDINGTON, LUTON, LU1 4EE
ODS code E81069
4.9 km
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
27 CASTLE STREET, LUTON, LU1 3AG
ODS code E81013
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Gibraltar Farm
BCT · Kinsbourne Green
- 0.8 miles
Gibraltar Farm
BCT · Kinsbourne Green
- 0.8 miles
West Hyde Road
BCT · Kinsbourne Green
- 0.8 miles
Watery Lane
BCT · Friars Wash
- 0.8 miles
Watery Lane
BCT · Friars Wash
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 006D, 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
31,906 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
59 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.