Sopwell Lane
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Reality check: Recorded indicators: area-safety proxy 40/100; transport-stop proximity 90/100; daily amenities 30/100; flood mapping 90/100; green-space proximity 81/100. These indicators do not establish personal suitability or future property returns.
Compare Profile Scores
Each profile applies different weights to the available indicators; it does not determine personal suitability.
Available components: area-safety proxy 40/100; family indicators 80/100; green-space proximity 81/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
Available components: area-safety proxy 40/100; family indicators 80/100; green-space proximity 81/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 30%, Family indicators 30%, Environment 20%, Amenities 10%, Energy 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 90/100; amenity proximity 45/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: market proxy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transport 35%, Walkability 30%, Amenities 25%, Market 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: area-safety proxy 40/100; green-space proximity 81/100; daily amenities 30/100; amenity proximity 45/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 25%, Environment 25%, Amenities 20%, Energy 15%, Walkability 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 90/100; daily amenities 30/100; area-safety proxy 40/100. Data unavailable: sale price. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Affordability 40%, Transport 25%, Amenities 20%, Safety 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Flood mapping
The mapped street point is classified as Zone 1 in the Environment Agency planning dataset. This covers river and sea flooding; it does not assess every property or surface-water risk.
Dataset revision: 2026-05-20. This is the dataset revision date, not a property inspection date.
Check the official flood map for your propertyThings You Should Know
Score 40/100. This is an LSOA incident-count proxy, not a population-adjusted crime rate.
How Life Works Here
Sopwell Lane is located in St. Albans, near St Albans, Hertfordshire. The associated LSOA area has 220 recorded incidents from 2025-08 to 2026-07. Incident rows were observed in 12 of the 12 selected months. These are area counts, not street-level incidents or population-adjusted rates; they do not establish a comparison with local or national averages. No nearby amenity records are available in this extract. Recorded nearby transport modes: rail and bus. The nearest mapped stop (Abbey) is 199m away. Check current routes and service frequency with the operator. The price sample is too small to publish a median; at least eight recorded transactions are required. LSOA source indicators: recorded population 2,056; owner-occupied homes 30.4%; social housing 2.2%; retired population 7.5%; average household size 2.1. There are 16 schools within 2 km, 16 rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. 2 are rated Outstanding. Both primary and secondary options are available locally. The nearest school is just 276m away. Proximity does not establish admissions eligibility, catchment or personal suitability. The highest available weighted profile is families at 61/100. This is a comparison of recorded inputs, not a recommendation or a forecast of returns. The available indicators produce a composite score of 62/100. Its recorded district percentile is 91. Missing dimensions are excluded; scores are proxies rather than measurements of personal liveability.
Score Breakdown
Scores are heuristic proxies from open datasets. Missing dimensions are excluded from the overall score. Source and scope are listed below.
police.uk recorded incident counts in the source extract; LSOA area, not street-level or population-adjusted
OpenStreetMap amenities within 2km
DfT NaPTAN + TfL stops
OpenStreetMap green-space proximity; distance-decay proxy, not noise or air quality
HM Land Registry price paid data
GIAS/Ofsted school records, mapped amenities, household and area-score indicators
Amenity and transport proximity proxy; no pedestrian network or route assessment
EPC Register — awaiting public API access
English Environment Agency planning zones; Welsh NRW categories are shown separately
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Public Services Nearby
Public facilities within walking distance from Sopwell Lane, with detailed information for each.
gyms & sports centres (3)
- Clarity Yoga 235m · 3 min walk
- Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre 525m · 7 min walk
- PureGym 768m · 10 min walk
hospitals (4)
- St Albans Medical Centre 246m · 3 min walk
- NHS Albany Lodge and St Albans Children Centre 851m · 11 min walk
- St Albans City Hospital 1391m · 17 min walk
- Health Barn Clinic 1511m · 19 min walk
parks & green spaces (5)
- Vintry Garden 276m · 4 min walk
- Quaker Garden 394m · 5 min walk
- Romeland Garden 504m · 6 min walk
- Watercress Wildlife Association 694m · 9 min walk
- The Garden of Hope 828m · 10 min walk
schools (5)
- St Peter's School 277m · 4 min walk
- The Abbey Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Albans 297m · 4 min walk
- Alban City School 711m · 9 min walk
- Aboyne Lodge Junior Mixed and Infant School 731m · 9 min walk
- Muriel Green Nursery School 820m · 10 min walk
Transport Links
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Data Transparency
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- OS Open Roads — Crown copyright and database right
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — Crown copyright
- police.uk crime data — Open Government Licence v3.0
- OpenStreetMap — ODbL licence
- DfT NaPTAN — Open Government Licence v3.0
- GIAS schools data — Crown copyright
- Environment Agency flood data — OGL v3.0
- ONS Census 2021 — Open Government Licence v3.0
All scores are computed from publicly available government and open data. No proprietary data is used. Scores reflect statistical patterns, not guarantees. Limited data available for this street — interpret scores with caution.