St Albans
TownTown in St Albans, East of England.
St Albans is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for St Albans 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 86% of people in St Albans live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How St Albans compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is St Albans safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in St Albans at a rate of 85.9 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, 586 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in St Albans.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,888), anti-social behaviour (1,352) and other crime (1,088).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in St Albans was 90.1 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 St Albans, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so St Albans has no single figure. Of its 44 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 17 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in St Albans
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Albans 007A | 2,059 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.2% |
| St Albans 007B | 1,629 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| St Albans 007C | 1,676 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.0% |
| St Albans 008A | 1,725 | 41.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.6% |
| St Albans 008B | 1,599 | 16.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| St Albans 008C | 1,632 | 26.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| St Albans 008D | 2,016 | 63.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| St Albans 009A | 1,778 | 63.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.4% |
| St Albans 009B | 2,103 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.2% |
| St Albans 009C | 1,948 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.3% |
| St Albans 009D | 1,916 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| St Albans 010A | 1,441 | 23.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| St Albans 010B | 1,786 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| St Albans 010C | 1,601 | 22.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| St Albans 010D | 2,115 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| St Albans 011A | 1,979 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.1% |
| St Albans 011B | 1,884 | 133.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| St Albans 011C | 1,382 | 14.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| St Albans 011D | 2,557 | 135.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 78.2% |
| St Albans 012A | 2,059 | 107.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.2% |
| St Albans 012B | 2,191 | 435.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 80.4% |
| St Albans 012C | 2,210 | 90.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.1% |
| St Albans 012E | 1,316 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
| St Albans 012F | 1,275 | 123.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.6% |
| St Albans 013A | 1,909 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| St Albans 013B | 1,762 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| St Albans 013C | 1,462 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| St Albans 013D | 1,407 | 25.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| St Albans 014A | 1,910 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.3% |
| St Albans 014B | 2,017 | 139.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 83.8% |
| St Albans 014C | 1,565 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| St Albans 014D | 1,800 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| St Albans 016A | 1,578 | 113.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| St Albans 016B | 1,827 | 72.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.0% |
| St Albans 016C | 1,713 | 174.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| St Albans 016D | 1,571 | 55.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.2% |
| St Albans 017A | 1,380 | 313.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.7% |
| St Albans 017B | 1,663 | 86.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| St Albans 017C | 1,593 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
| St Albans 017D | 1,453 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.5% |
| St Albans 017E | 1,621 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| St Albans 021A | 1,483 | 99.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| St Albans 021B | 1,279 | 172.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.0% |
| St Albans 021D | 1,932 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.0% |
Your MP
- Daisy CooperLiberal DemocratMP for St Albans
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 St Albans3
Middle areas in St Albans11
Towns near St Albans6
St Albans in brief
St Albans is a town in St Albans, East of England.
About 77,003 people lived in St Albans in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £580,000 in 2025 across 1,131 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 85.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in St Albans was £580,000 in 2025.
St Albans had 75,544 usual residents at the census.
About 86% of people in St Albans live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In St Albans, 94.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.