Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 2 secondary schools. Clore Shalom School is the nearest published school at 993 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD7 9HN
London Colney · St Albans · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- London Colney
- Local authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans
- Postcode district
- WD7
- Postcode sector
- WD7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD7 9HN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD7
- Postcode sector
- WD7 9
- Latitude
- 51.709845
- Longitude
- -0.300775
- British National Grid easting
- 517,500
- British National Grid northing
- 202,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- St Albans · E07000240
- Electoral ward
- London Colney · E05013957
- Parish or community
- E04013285
- Westminster constituency
- St Albans · E14001507
- Output area
- E00120376
- Lower layer super output area
- St Albans 018E · E01023708
- Middle layer super output area
- St Albans 018 · E02004941
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 WD7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 2
- 993 m
Clore Shalom School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.1 km
Saint Bernadette Voluntary Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Radlett Lodge School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,247
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 396
- Other theft 379
- Shoplifting 164
- Anti social behaviour 84
- Public order 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD7 9 residents
- 4,481
Age bands in WD7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
875 residents
501 residents
1,134 residents
1,345 residents
810 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
SUMMERFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
CALEDON ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1PU
ODS code E82107
1.4 km
VERULAM MEDICAL GROUP
COLNEY MEDICAL CENTRE, 45-47 KINGS ROAD, LONDON COLNEY, ST. ALBANS, AL2 1ES
ODS code E82113
1.7 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
3.2 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
4.5 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Shenleybury Lane
BCT · London Colney
- 0.3 miles
Shenleybury Lane
BCT · London Colney
- 0.4 miles
Harperbury Park
BCT · Colney Street
- 0.6 miles
Walsingham Way
BCT · London Colney
- 0.7 miles
Shenleybury Cottages
BCT · Shenley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St Albans 018E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,586 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,247 published events cover 12 months, averaging 103.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 396 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.