Cheltenham

What is it like to live in Cheltenham?

Homes sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. 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 32 primary schools, 9 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 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.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Cheltenham?

Homes in Cheltenham sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,552 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £320,000 from 2,027 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £627,000 253 sales
• Semi-detached £370,500 450 sales
• Terraced £307,000 467 sales
• Flat or maisonette £202,500 382 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 October 2026.

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 September 2025, 22 of the 2,027 homes sold in Cheltenham were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL51 district, 3%.

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 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).

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 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.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

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

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

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

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.

Source: police.uk, data to January 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.