Property market
The five-year median is £620,000 from 2 recorded sales in AL5 4FW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for St Albans is £651,448 in June 2026, up 4.3% year on year.
AL5 4FW
Harpenden North & Rural · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Harpenden
- Local authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL5 4FW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 4
- Latitude
- 51.830498
- Longitude
- -0.348498
- British National Grid easting
- 513,899
- British National Grid northing
- 215,942
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
- E04013284
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120318
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 001D · E01023693
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 001 · E02004924
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
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Westfield Close, Harpenden, AL5 4FW | 6 February 2026 | £590,000 |
| 3, Westfield Close, Harpenden, AL5 4FW | 26 September 2025 | £650,000 |
| 3, Westfield Close, Harpenden, AL5 4FW | 21 September 2015 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 368 m
The Lea Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 770 m
Manland Primary School
Community school
- 862 m
Sauncey Wood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 674
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 175
- Anti social behaviour 122
- Other theft 105
- Vehicle crime 79
- Criminal damage and arson 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL5 4 residents
- 7,137
Age bands in AL5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.1%
1,656 residents
717 residents
1,578 residents
2,092 residents
1,163 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
ELMS MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
1.3 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
1.6 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
1.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Red Cow PH
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.0 miles
The Red Cow PH
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Westfield Road
BCT · Batford
- 0.1 miles
Westfield Road
BCT · Batford
- 0.1 miles
Beeching Close
BCT · Harpenden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 001D, 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
32,477 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Lea Primary School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
674 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 175 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.