GL2 postcode district: Gloucester and around

GL2 is a postcode district in Gloucestershire, with 1,503 postcodes in use in 8 sectors. It has postcodes in Gloucester, Quedgeley and Hardwicke, Longford and 1 more place. It is split between 4 councils: Gloucester (854 postcodes), Stroud (319), Tewkesbury (283) and 1 other.

Postcodes in use: 1,503
Sectors: 8
Councils: 4 councils
Places: 4 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in GL2, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 103
Some can get gigabit: 240
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,137
Ofcom gives no figure: 23
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,503 postcodes in GL2 that ONS places, 103 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 240 have some that can, 1,137 can all get it and 23 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 180 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8440, longitude -2.2693. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

103 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

GL2 0AL GL2 0RE GL2 0RY GL2 0TD GL2 2GJ GL2 2GL GL2 2GQ GL2 2HH GL2 2RG GL2 2RQ GL2 3NP GL2 3WT

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

17 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. GL2 5LQ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. GL2 8NJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in GL2?

Ofcom reports on 1,480 of the 1,503 postcodes in GL2. At 1,137 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 7 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,137 of 1,480

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,328 of 1,480

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband7 of 1,480

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is GL2 at risk of flooding?

257 of the 1,503 postcodes in GL2 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,338 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 257 of 1,503 postcodes High: 971Medium: 367Low: 853Very low: 567

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in GL2?

Homes in GL2 sold for a typical £295,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 764 sales, down 1.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£295,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£299,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 1.3% on the 12 months before

Detached £435,000 238 sales
Semi-detached £294,250 264 sales
Terraced £230,000 215 sales
Flat or maisonette £146,000 47 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it