Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Wood End School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL5 3QA
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 3QA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2007
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 3
- Latitude
- 51.834989
- Longitude
- -0.394895
- British National Grid easting
- 510,691
- British National Grid northing
- 216,370
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
- 38
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.3 km
Wood End School
Community school
- 2.2 km
The King's School
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Roundwood Park School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 56
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Vehicle crime 8
- Burglary 5
- 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
ELMS MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
3.5 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
3.5 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
3.5 km
THE MEDICI MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 WINDSOR STREET, LUTON, LU1 3UA
ODS code E81073
4.7 km
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
27 CASTLE STREET, LUTON, LU1 3AG
ODS code E81013
4.7 km
THE TOWN CENTRE PRACTICE
14-16 CHAPEL STREET, LUTON, LU1 2SE
ODS code Y02463
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
West Hyde Road
BCT · Kinsbourne Green
- 0.1 miles
West Hyde Road
BCT · Kinsbourne Green
- 0.3 miles
The Fox PH
BCT · Kinsbourne Green
- 0.3 miles
The Fox PH
BCT · Kinsbourne Green
- 0.5 miles
Tintern Close
BCT · Harpenden
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
56 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.