Smallford

20°CLight drizzle

• Today: 23° / 12° · 57% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 17° · Light rain shower

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:25

12h 56m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

47 reported · July 2026▲ 57% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences12
• Anti-social behaviour10
• Shoplifting6
• Public order5

Neighbourhood team: London Colney, St Stephens and St Albans East · Hertfordshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

200 reported road collisions (2024)

39 killed or seriously injured · 287 casualties · 13.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

278 food businesses within 2 miles

• 225 rated 4–5 ★ (183 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Hatfield (4.0 km)
• 12 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£651,448 average▲ 4.3% YoY

Across St Albans · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,931 average monthly rent▲ 3% YoY

• 1 bed £1,271
• 2 bed £1,632
• 3 bed £2,018

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

15.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 15.0 times median annual pay (13.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.7p · Asda (11.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 177.7p · Asda (11.6 km)

14 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

72 charging locations within ~8 km

• 14 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Nissan Glyn Hopkin Ltd (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches30
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

148,165 residents in St Albans · 919/km²

• Under 16: 22%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 306 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,419 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (26% of 63,450)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

79 schools · 34,051 pupils

50 primary · 12 secondary · 17 other

Ofsted: 29 of 29 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

70inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · St Albans

1,172 CQC-registered services

• Care homes257
• GP practices170
• Dentists295
• Homecare agencies329
• Hospitals & hospices34

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hertfordshire

• Within the Green Belt
• 31 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

333 applications decided

85.9% granted · 286 granted, 47 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Daisy Cooper

Liberal Democrat

St Albans

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 2
• Con 5
• LD 43
• Grn 3
• Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,145 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

57 jobs advertised · £56,128 avg

e.g. Yard Person, Assistant Chef Manager, Loading Shovel Driver - St Albans

Source: Adzuna

£1,135 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£40,492 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 66,877 certificates

7.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

88% low-carbon electricity

Wind 56% · Nuclear 18% · Gas 11% · Biomass 10%

55 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.7 yrs women · 82.4 yrs men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.0
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in St Albans:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s464 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership372 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership305 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test277 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office253 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Smallford · 0.2 km

  Smallford is a village in the City and District of St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It is sandwiched between Hatfield and St Albans. It was served by Smallford railway station on the Hatfield and St Albans Ra…

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  Smallford railway station · 0.3 km

  Smallford railway station was a station on the former St Albans Branch Line in the UK. The station opened as Springfield in 1866, and was renamed in 1879. The station closed permanently on New Year's Day 1969 when a h…

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  Alban Way · 0.7 km

  The Alban Way is a shared-use path along the former Hatfield and St Albans Railway in Hertfordshire, England. The route is 6.3 miles (10.1 km) long and is owned by St Albans City & District Council and Welwyn Hatfield…

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  Sleapshyde · 0.8 km

  Sleapshyde is a small village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It is located between Hatfield and St Albans, to the south of Smallford and to the north of Colney Heath, of which it is located in the civil parish of.…

• Torilla (house) · 1.2 km

  Torilla is a Grade II* listed house in Wilkin's Green Lane in Hatfield, England. It was designed in 1934–35 by F. R. S. Yorke in the modernist style and has influences from Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche. This was t…

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  St Peter Rural · 1.3 km

  St Peter Rural was a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England from 1894 to 1947. The local council was St Peter Rural Parish Council.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)