Charfield

Charfield is covered by postcode district GL12. It is mostly in the South Gloucestershire council area: 57 of its 58 postcodes. The other is in Stroud. 1 of its 58 postcodes is in Gloucestershire. ONS lists no county for the other 57.

Typical price £375,000 Homes sold in Charfield, last 12 months. ▼ 6.2% on the year before Gigabit broadband 40 of 58 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 11 of 58 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 60 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Charfield, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Charfield, by flood risk Of the 58 postcodes in Charfield that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst and 47 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Charfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. GL12 8BL: not on the flood risk listGL12 8EH: not on the flood risk listGL12 8EL: not on the flood risk listGL12 8EQ: not on the flood risk listGL12 8EU: not on the flood risk listGL12 8EW: not on the flood risk listGL12 8FF: not on the flood risk listGL12 8FG: not on the flood risk listGL12 8FH: not on the flood risk listGL12 8HX: not on the flood risk listGL12 8HY: not on the flood risk listGL12 8HZ: not on the flood risk listGL12 8JA: not on the flood risk listGL12 8LA: not on the flood risk listGL12 8LG: not on the flood risk listGL12 8LH: not on the flood risk listGL12 8LQ: not on the flood risk listGL12 8LU: not on the flood risk listGL12 8LY: not on the flood risk listGL12 8SN: not on the flood risk listGL12 8SR: not on the flood risk listGL12 8SW: not on the flood risk listGL12 8SX: not on the flood risk listGL12 8SY: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TA: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TB: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TD: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TE: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TF: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TG: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TH: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TJ: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TL: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TN: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TP: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TQ: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TS: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TT: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TU: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TW: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TX: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TY: not on the flood risk listGL12 8TZ: not on the flood risk listGL12 8UA: not on the flood risk listGL12 8UB: not on the flood risk listGL12 8UD: not on the flood risk listGL12 8UF: not on the flood risk listGL12 8LS: medium flood risk at worstGL12 8SP: medium flood risk at worstGL12 8SZ: medium flood risk at worstGL12 8EF: high flood riskGL12 8EJ: high flood riskGL12 8ES: high flood riskGL12 8LT: high flood riskGL12 8SJ: high flood riskGL12 8ST: high flood riskGL12 8SU: high flood riskGL12 8TR: high flood risk Charfield 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to GL12 8ST, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk5 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Charfield, by flood risk Of the 58 postcodes in Charfield that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst and 47 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Charfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Charfield
  • A home or business at high risk: 8
  • At medium risk at worst: 3
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 47
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 58 postcodes in Charfield that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst and 47 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.6273, longitude -2.4019. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

GL12 8ES9 at high riskGL12 8ST9 at high riskGL12 8EF6 at high riskGL12 8TR5 at high riskGL12 8LT1 at high riskGL12 8SJ1 at high riskGL12 8EJ1 at high riskGL12 8SU1 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL12 8ST, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Charfield?

Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.2% on the 12 months before. At 40 of the 58 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 60 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 11 of its 58 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Chipping Surgery, 3.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Yate, 9.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Charfield?

Homes in Charfield sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 29 sales, down 6.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£375,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£400,000
12 months to August 2026
£375,000

▼ down 6.2% on the 12 months before

Detached£475,000 10 sales
Semi-detached£331,500 16 sales
Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole GL12 district, Charfield's main postcode district: a typical £395,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Charfield: 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

Are new homes being built in Charfield?

3 of the 58 postcodes now in use in Charfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 30 homes sold in Charfield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL12 district, 5%.

The newest postcodes

GL12 8FHsince October 2021GL12 8FGsince January 2021GL12 8FFsince August 2020

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn CharfieldAcross the GL12 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 29 (0%) 2 of 140 (1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 30 (0%) 10 of 210 (5%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Charfield?

Ofcom reports on 58 of the 58 postcodes in Charfield. At 40 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit40 of 58
Postcodes where every home can get superfast57 of 58

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 Charfield at risk of flooding?

11 of the 58 postcodes in Charfield 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 60 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 11 of 58 postcodes High: 33Medium: 27Low: 57

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

Which schools are in Charfield?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Charfield. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Charfield?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Charfield is Yate Rail Station, 9.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Yate Rail Station Railway station 9.9 kmDrive
  • Cam & Dursley Rail Station Railway station 10.5 kmDrive
  • Lydney Rail Station Railway station 13.1 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Charfield?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Charfield. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Charfield safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 161 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Charfield over the 12 months from February 2025 to January 2026. Gloucestershire Constabulary has published no figures to Police.uk after January 2026, though Police.uk has figures to August 2026 for other forces. These figures run to January 2026, so no month is counted without them. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, February 2025 to January 2026

  1. 15 February 2025
  2. 23 March 2025
  3. 10 April 2025
  4. 5 May 2025
  5. 9 June 2025
  6. 14 July 2025
  7. 27 August 2025
  8. 14 September 2025
  9. 18 October 2025
  10. 8 November 2025
  11. 10 December 2025
  12. 8 January 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences62 reports
Anti-social behaviour30 reports
Public order21 reports
Other theft14 reports
Burglary10 reports
Criminal damage and arson7 reports
Shoplifting6 reports
Other crime5 reports

Also: vehicle crime 4, robbery 1, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to January 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Charfield?

Councils
South Gloucestershire (57) and Stroud (1)
Parliamentary constituencies
Thornbury and Yate (57) and South Cotswolds (1)
Police force areas
Avon and Somerset (57) and Gloucestershire (1)
Region
South West
Country
England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

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

Moving to Charfield

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Charfield postcodes

58 postcodes in use in Charfield, by district:

GL12 postcode district,58 postcodes

That district is in the GL postcode area.

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Places near Charfield

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Charfield's £375,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Wotton-under-Edge3.7 km, £365,000Dursley6.9 km, £270,000Thornbury8.2 km, £354,750Berkeley8.3 km, £286,250Cam8.4 km, £315,000Yate9.6 km, £295,000Alveston10.0 km, £400,000Chipping Sodbury10.1 km, £350,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Charfield

What is it like to live in Charfield?
Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 6.2% on the 12 months before. At 40 of the 58 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 60 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 11 of its 58 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Chipping Surgery, 3.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Yate, 9.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Charfield?
Charfield is covered by postcode district GL12, across 58 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Charfield?
Homes in Charfield sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 29 sales, down 6.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Charfield?
In Charfield, primary schools at its postcodes include Charfield Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, 2.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Charfield have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Charfield is Yate, 9.9 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Charfield?
Ofcom reports on 58 of the 58 postcodes in Charfield. At 40 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Charfield at risk of flooding?
11 of the 58 postcodes in Charfield 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 60 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Charfield?
3 of the 58 postcodes now in use in Charfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 30 homes sold in Charfield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL12 district, 5%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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