Property market
The five-year median is £554,500 from 2 recorded sales in HP3 8LA. 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.
HP3 8LA
Verulam · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Ward
- Verulam
- Local authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- HP3
- Postcode sector
- HP3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP3 8LA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP3
- Postcode sector
- HP3 8
- Latitude
- 51.742841
- Longitude
- -0.410896
- British National Grid easting
- 509,812
- British National Grid northing
- 206,098
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- Verulam · E05013966
- Parish or community
- E04013287
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00120475
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 006A · E01023722
- 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 HP3
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Cottage, Hemel Hempstead Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8LA | 8 November 2022 | £610,000 |
| Beechtree Cottage, 2, Hemel Hempstead Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8LA | 30 September 2021 | £499,000 |
| Corner Farm, Hemel Hempstead Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8LA | 5 October 2020 | £1,105,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.5 km
Leverstock Green Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.7 km
Woodfield School
Community special school
- 2.2 km
Longdean School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 135
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 52
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Drugs 11
- Vehicle crime 8
- Criminal damage and arson 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- HP3 8 residents
- 10,125
13 female, 16 male
Age bands in HP3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,813 residents
1,086 residents
2,297 residents
2,436 residents
1,759 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP3 8 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+
- 63.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
11
within 5 km
BENNETTS END SURGERY
GATECROFT, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9LY
ODS code E82032
2.7 km
EVEREST HOUSE SURGERY
EVEREST HOUSE, EVEREST WAY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 4HY
ODS code E82051
3.0 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
4.0 km
LINCOLN HOUSE SURGERY
163 LONDON ROAD, APSLEY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9SQ
ODS code E82009
4.1 km
KINGS LANGLEY SURGERY
THE NAP, KINGS LANGLEY, WD4 8ET
ODS code E82129
4.2 km
VINE HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
87-89 HIGH STREET, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0AL
ODS code E82046
4.3 km
FERNVILLE SURGERY
MIDLAND ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 5BL
ODS code E82022
4.4 km
HAVERFIELD SURGERY
1 LANGLEY HILL, KINGS LANGLEY, WD4 9HA
ODS code E82066
4.4 km
GROVE HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KILBRIDE COURT, GROVEHILL, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 6AD
ODS code E82050
4.6 km
WOODHALL FARM MEDICAL CTR
VALLEY GREEN, SHENLEY ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 7RJ
ODS code E82070
4.6 km
ABBOTSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 KATHERINE PLACE, COLLEGE ROAD, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0BT
ODS code E82105
4.7 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
Corner Farm
BCT · Pimlico
- 0.0 miles
Corner Farm
BCT · Pimlico
- 0.2 miles
Blackwater Lane
BCT · Pimlico
- 0.3 miles
Blackwater Lane
BCT · Pimlico
- 0.3 miles
Beechtree Cottages
BCT · Pimlico
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 006A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,674 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 7 secondary schools. Leverstock Green Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
135 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 52 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.