Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Batford Nursery School is the nearest published school at 245 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL5 5BL
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL5 5BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL5
- Postcode sector
- AL5 5
- Latitude
- 51.825528
- Longitude
- -0.334038
- British National Grid easting
- 514,908
- British National Grid northing
- 215,412
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
- E00120297
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 002C · E01023687
- 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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 41, Milford Hill, Harpenden, AL5 5BL | 31 May 2017 | £375,000 |
| 59, Milford Hill, Harpenden, AL5 5BL | 7 July 2008 | £233,000 |
| 55, Milford Hill, Harpenden, AL5 5BL | 26 May 1995 | £77,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 245 m
Batford Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 300 m
Sauncey Wood Primary School
Community school
- 320 m
Katherine Warington School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 606
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 190
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Vehicle crime 92
- Criminal damage and arson 65
- Other theft 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- AL5 5 residents
- 8,425
28 female, 19 male
Age bands in AL5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
1,961 residents
751 residents
1,988 residents
2,307 residents
1,213 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL5 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
1.4 km
DAVENPORT HOUSE SURGERY
DAVENPORT HOUSE, BOWERS WAY, HARPENDEN, AL5 4HX
ODS code E82077
1.8 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
AMENBURY LANE, HARPENDEN, AL5 2BT
ODS code E82037
2.0 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
Holcroft Road
BCT · Batford
- 0.0 miles
Tallents Crescent
BCT · Batford
- 0.1 miles
Tallents Crescent
BCT · Batford
- 0.1 miles
Holcroft Road
BCT · Batford
- 0.2 miles
Whitings Close
BCT · Batford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 002C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,524 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
606 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 190 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.