Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Harpenden Academy is the nearest published school at 222 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL5 4XU
Harpenden West · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harpenden West
- 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 4XU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 4
- Latitude
- 51.816659
- Longitude
- -0.350440
- British National Grid easting
- 513,800
- British National Grid northing
- 214,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Harpenden West · E05013955
- Parish or community
- E04013284
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120353
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 003D · E01023702
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 003 · E02004926
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
- 26
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 222 m
Harpenden Academy
Free schools
- 539 m
St Dominic Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 547 m
St Nicholas CofE VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,326
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 314
- Anti social behaviour 223
- Shoplifting 173
- Other theft 152
- Vehicle crime 137
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
271 m
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
288 m
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
550 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Overstone Road
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Cornwall Rd
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Cornwall Rd
BCT · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
Harpenden Rail Station
RSE · Harpenden
- 0.1 miles
The Cedars
BCT · Harpenden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 003D, 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
33,246 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
- 10 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
1,326 published events cover 12 months, averaging 110.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 314 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.