Cheltenham
Cheltenham is covered by postcode districts GL50, GL51, GL52, GL53 and GL54. It is mostly in the Cheltenham council area: 3,703 of its 3,743 postcodes. The others are in Tewkesbury.
Every postcode in Cheltenham, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 88
- At medium risk at worst: 58
- At low risk at worst: 111
- At very low risk only: 50
- Not on the at-risk list: 3,436
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 3,743 postcodes in Cheltenham that ONS places, 88 have a home or business at high risk, 58 are at medium risk at worst, 111 are at low risk at worst, 50 are at very low risk only and 3,436 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 150 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 51.8971, longitude -2.0849. 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
88 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 29 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL53 7NF, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 26 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL52 5NE, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 21 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL50 1JX, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL51 8LE, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL51 9LT, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL51 7PA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Cheltenham?
Homes sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.2% on the 12 months before. At 3,055 of the 3,548 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 820 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 307 of its 3,743 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Cheltenham Spa, 1.0 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 Cheltenham?
Homes in Cheltenham sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,560 sales, up 1.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £630,000 257 sales
- Semi-detached £371,000 455 sales
- Terraced £300,000 453 sales
- Flat or maisonette £200,000 395 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole GL51 district, Cheltenham's main postcode district: a typical £300,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Cheltenham: 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 Cheltenham?
117 of the 3,743 postcodes now in use in Cheltenham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 24 of the 2,026 homes sold in Cheltenham were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL51 district, 4%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Cheltenham | Across the GL51 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 5 of 1,560 (Under 1%) | 3 of 548 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 24 of 2,026 (1%) | 30 of 844 (4%) |
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 Cheltenham?
Ofcom reports on 3,548 of the 3,743 postcodes in Cheltenham. At 3,055 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Cheltenham at risk of flooding?
307 of the 3,743 postcodes in Cheltenham 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 820 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 Cheltenham?
The open schools at the postcodes in Cheltenham (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Gloucestershire Hospital Education Service250 m 0 pupils, 30 places
- Dean Close Airthrie450 m 52 pupils, 153 places
- Christ Church CofE Primary School550 m 213 pupils, 220 places
- The Catholic School of Saint Gregory the Great600 m 412 pupils, 420 places
- Cheltenham College800 m 1,134 pupils, 1,200 places
- Gloucester Road Primary School950 m 236 pupils, 210 places
- St John's Church of England Primary School1.1 km 174 pupils, 203 places
- Dean Close Preparatory School1.2 km 436 pupils, 510 places
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 Cheltenham?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Cheltenham is Cheltenham Spa Rail Station, 1.0 km away in a straight line.
- Cheltenham Spa Rail Station Railway station 1.0 kmWalk
- Gloucester Rail Station Railway station 11.1 kmDrive
- Ashchurch for Tewkesbury Rail Station Railway station 11.4 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 Cheltenham?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Cheltenham, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Overton Park Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01242 580511 250 mWalk
- Yorkleigh Surgery(Ct) Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01242 519049 350 mWalk
- Underwood Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01242 580644 600 mWalk
- St. Catherine's Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01242 215005 1.1 kmWalk
- St. George's Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01242 215015 1.1 kmWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Cheltenham safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 6,582 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Cheltenham 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
- 480 February 2025
- 613 March 2025
- 543 April 2025
- 541 May 2025
- 515 June 2025
- 602 July 2025
- 608 August 2025
- 578 September 2025
- 556 October 2025
- 524 November 2025
- 517 December 2025
- 505 January 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 126, bicycle theft 123, other crime 110, robbery 69, theft from the person 42, possession of weapons 39.
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 postcodeSource: 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 Cheltenham?
- Councils
- Cheltenham (3,703) and Tewkesbury (40)
- County council
- Gloucestershire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Cheltenham (3,330), Tewkesbury (383) and North Cotswolds (30)
- Police force area
- Gloucestershire
- 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 Cheltenham
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Cheltenham is in Cheltenham; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Cheltenham about council tax Council tax, on cheltenham.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Cheltenham
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Cheltenham postcodes
3,743 postcodes in use in Cheltenham, by district:
Those districts are all in the GL postcode area.
Check a Cheltenham postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Cheltenham
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Cheltenham's £325,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Cheltenham
- What is it like to live in Cheltenham?
- Homes sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.2% on the 12 months before. At 3,055 of the 3,548 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 820 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 307 of its 3,743 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Cheltenham Spa, 1.0 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 Cheltenham?
- Cheltenham is covered by postcode districts GL50, GL51, GL52, GL53 and GL54, across 3,743 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Cheltenham?
- Homes in Cheltenham sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,560 sales, up 1.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Cheltenham?
- In Cheltenham, primary schools at its postcodes include Gloucestershire Hospital Education Service, Dean Close Airthrie and Christ Church CofE Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Gloucestershire Hospital Education Service, Cheltenham Ladies' College and Cheltenham College. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Cheltenham have a railway station?
- Yes: Cheltenham Spa is 1.0 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Cheltenham, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Cheltenham?
- Ofcom reports on 3,548 of the 3,743 postcodes in Cheltenham. At 3,055 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Cheltenham at risk of flooding?
- 307 of the 3,743 postcodes in Cheltenham 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 820 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 Cheltenham?
- 117 of the 3,743 postcodes now in use in Cheltenham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 24 of the 2,026 homes sold in Cheltenham were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL51 district, 4%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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