Local fact sheet
St Albans's homes, by the numbers
St Albans in the 2021 census: 58,990 households, 77% houses, 23% flats.
St Albans has the highest ownership of any town we cover, at seven households in ten, and the lowest private renting of its neighbours, at one in six. Almost everyone specifying a floor here will be standing on it in five years, and it shows in what people ask for.
St Albans combines Roman and medieval heritage in the Cathedral and Verulam areas with elegant Victorian and Edwardian villas around Fishpool Street and Marshalswick, plus substantial family homes in Harpenden, Wheathampstead and the surrounding Hertfordshire villages. The city’s exceptional schools and 18-minute trains to St Pancras drive premium property values.
The centre holds conservation-area stock with suspended timber and the ventilation questions that come with it; Marshalswick, Cunningham and the newer edges are twentieth-century and mostly solid at ground level. Two different preparations, often within the same AL1 postcode.
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