Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Sir John Lawes School is the nearest published school at 287 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL5 4RB
Harpenden East · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Harpenden
- Ward
- Harpenden East
- 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 4RB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2017
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 4
- Latitude
- 51.821872
- Longitude
- -0.341979
- British National Grid easting
- 514,370
- British National Grid northing
- 214,993
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Harpenden East · E05013952
- Parish or community
- E04013284
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120284
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 002D · E01023688
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 002 · E02004925
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
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| St Margarets Flats, 5, 1, Cross Way, Harpenden, AL5 4RB | 23 June 2017 | £885,000 |
| St Margarets Flats, 5, 3, Cross Way, Harpenden, AL5 4RB | 21 February 2013 | £425,000 |
| St Margarets Flats, 5, 5, Cross Way, Harpenden, AL5 4RB | 16 February 2007 | £225,250 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 287 m
Sir John Lawes School
Academy converter
- 450 m
Manland Primary School
Community school
- 610 m
Batford Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,138
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 256
- Anti social behaviour 188
- Shoplifting 154
- Other theft 142
- Vehicle crime 120
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
ELMS MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 STEWART ROAD, HARPENDEN, AL5 4QA
ODS code E82071
765 m
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
1.1 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Martham Court
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Martham Court
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Langdale Avenue
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Langdale Avenue
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.2 miles
Lyndhurst Drive
BCT · Harpenden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 002D, 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
31,103 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,138 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 256 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.