St Albans
St Albans is covered by postcode districts AL1, AL2, AL3, AL4 and AL5. It is in the St Albans council area, Hertfordshire.
Every postcode in St Albans, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 3
- At medium risk at worst: 1
- At low risk at worst: 12
- At very low risk only: 1
- Not on the at-risk list: 2,156
Of the 2,173 postcodes in St Albans that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 12 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 2,156 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.7531, longitude -0.3239. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in St Albans?
Homes sold for a typical £595,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.5% on the 12 months before. At 1,782 of the 2,043 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 17 of its 2,173 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is St Albans City, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in St Albans?
Homes in St Albans sold for a typical £595,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 814 sales, down 1.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 12 months to August 2025
- £605,000
- 12 months to August 2026
- £595,750
▼ down 1.5% on the 12 months before
Across the whole AL1 district, St Albans's main postcode district: a typical £550,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in St Albans: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in St Albans?
91 of the 2,173 postcodes now in use in St Albans came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 85 of the 1,185 homes sold in St Albans were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the AL1 district, 13%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In St Albans | Across the AL1 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 17 of 814 (2%) | 16 of 456 (4%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 85 of 1,185 (7%) | 85 of 672 (13%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in St Albans?
Ofcom reports on 2,043 of the 2,173 postcodes in St Albans. At 1,782 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is St Albans at risk of flooding?
17 of the 2,173 postcodes in St Albans have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 6 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in St Albans?
The open schools at the postcodes in St Albans (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery350 m 410 pupils, 459 places
- Maple Primary School650 m 214 pupils, 210 places
- Fleetville Junior School650 m 358 pupils, 360 places
- Alban City School700 m 381 pupils, 420 places
- St Albans High School for Girls750 m 1,106 pupils, 1,220 places
- Fleetville Infant and Nursery School800 m 304 pupils, 270 places
- Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School950 m 279 pupils, 322 places
- Aboyne Lodge Junior Mixed and Infant School1.0 km 198 pupils, 210 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from St Albans?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in St Albans is St Albans City Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.
- St Albans City Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
- St Albans Abbey Rail Station Railway station 1.6 kmCycle
- Park Street Rail Station Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in St Albans?
The GP practices at the postcodes in St Albans, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Hatfield Road Surgery650 m
- Parkbury House Surgery800 m
- Grange Street Surgery950 m
- Maltings Surgery950 m
- Harvey Group Practice1.1 km
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is St Albans safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 3,989 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in St Albans over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 343 September 2025
- 383 October 2025
- 326 November 2025
- 335 December 2025
- 363 January 2026
- 316 February 2026
- 286 March 2026
- 291 April 2026
- 353 May 2026
- 308 June 2026
- 342 July 2026
- 343 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 134, other crime 61, bicycle theft 57, theft from the person 50, robbery 31, possession of weapons 29.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs St Albans?
- District, borough or city council
- St Albans
- County council
- Hertfordshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- St Albans (2,102) and Harpenden and Berkhamsted (71)
- Police force area
- Hertfordshire
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to St Albans
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell St Albans about council tax Council tax, on stalbans.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in St Albans
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
St Albans postcodes
2,173 postcodes in use in St Albans, by district:
Those districts are all in the AL postcode area.
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Places near St Albans
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside St Albans's £595,750. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about St Albans
- What is it like to live in St Albans?
- Homes sold for a typical £595,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.5% on the 12 months before. At 1,782 of the 2,043 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 17 of its 2,173 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is St Albans City, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for St Albans?
- St Albans is covered by postcode districts AL1, AL2, AL3, AL4 and AL5, across 2,173 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is St Albans in?
- St Albans is in the St Albans council area, and Hertfordshire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in St Albans?
- Homes in St Albans sold for a typical £595,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 814 sales, down 1.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in St Albans?
- In St Albans, primary schools at its postcodes include St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery, Maple Primary School and Fleetville Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Loreto College, Verulam School and St Albans High School for Girls. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does St Albans have a railway station?
- Yes: St Albans City is 400 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in St Albans, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in St Albans?
- Ofcom reports on 2,043 of the 2,173 postcodes in St Albans. At 1,782 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is St Albans at risk of flooding?
- 17 of the 2,173 postcodes in St Albans have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 6 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in St Albans?
- 91 of the 2,173 postcodes now in use in St Albans came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 85 of the 1,185 homes sold in St Albans were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the AL1 district, 13%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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