Harpenden
TownTown in St Albans, East of England.
Harpenden is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Harpenden add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Harpenden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Harpenden compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Harpenden safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Harpenden at a rate of 48.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 119 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Harpenden.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (346), anti-social behaviour (321) and other crime (290).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Harpenden was 49.0 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Harpenden, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Harpenden has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 15 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Harpenden
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Albans 001A | 1,740 | 25.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.9% |
| St Albans 001B | 1,475 | 14.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| St Albans 001C | 1,252 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.5% |
| St Albans 001D | 1,519 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| St Albans 001E | 1,742 | 15.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| St Albans 002A | 1,733 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| St Albans 002B | 1,593 | 23.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| St Albans 002C | 1,517 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| St Albans 002D | 1,541 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| St Albans 002E | 1,494 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| St Albans 003A | 1,622 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| St Albans 003B | 1,375 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| St Albans 003C | 1,932 | 198.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.0% |
| St Albans 003D | 1,656 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.5% |
| St Albans 003E | 1,516 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| St Albans 005A | 1,660 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| St Albans 005B | 1,805 | 20.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 53.1% |
| St Albans 005C | 1,883 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.9% |
| St Albans 005D | 1,524 | 26.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
Your MP
- Victoria CollinsLiberal DemocratMP for Harpenden and Berkhamsted
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Harpenden1
Middle areas in Harpenden4
Towns near Harpenden6
Harpenden in brief
Harpenden is a town in St Albans, East of England.
About 31,321 people lived in Harpenden in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £795,000 in 2025 across 490 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Harpenden was £795,000 in 2025.
Harpenden had 30,964 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Harpenden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Harpenden, 94.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.