Gloucester

What is it like to live in Gloucester?

Homes sold for a typical £255,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 2,320 of the 2,738 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3,069 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 419 of its 2,797 postcodes. It has 29 primary schools, 9 secondary schools and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Gloucester, 1.4 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 Gloucester?

Homes in Gloucester sold for a typical £255,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,212 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £255,000 from 1,724 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £395,000 211 sales
• Semi-detached £282,000 483 sales
• Terraced £215,000 305 sales
• Flat or maisonette £142,500 213 sales

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

Across the whole GL4 district, Gloucester's main postcode district: a typical £270,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Gloucester: 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.

Are new homes being built in Gloucester?

55 of the 2,797 postcodes now in use in Gloucester came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 32 of the 1,724 homes sold in Gloucester were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL4 district, 8%.

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 September 2026.

What broadband can you get in Gloucester?

Ofcom reports on 2,738 of the 2,797 postcodes in Gloucester. At 2,320 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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 Gloucester at risk of flooding?

419 of the 2,797 postcodes in Gloucester 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 3,069 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 Gloucester?

The open schools at the postcodes in Gloucester (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 Gloucester?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Gloucester is Gloucester Rail Station, 1.4 km away in a straight line.

• Gloucester Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
• Cheltenham Spa Rail Station Railway station 10.2 kmDrive
• Stroud (Glos) Rail Station Railway station 12.2 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 Gloucester?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Gloucester, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Rosebank Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01452 543000 850 mWalk
• Partners In Health, Pavilion Family Drs Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2025 · Phone 01452 385555 900 mWalk
• The Homeless Healthcare Team Phone 01452 521898 1.3 kmCycle
• Aspen Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01452 337733 1.4 kmCycle
• Kingsholm Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01452 522902 1.7 kmCycle

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

Is Gloucester safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 7,576 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Gloucester 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: burglary 216, bicycle theft 158, other crime 144, robbery 122, possession of weapons 81, theft from the person 53.

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 Gloucester?

Councils

Gloucester (2,753), Tewkesbury (42) and Stroud (2)

County council

Gloucestershire

Parliamentary constituencies

Gloucester (2,407), Tewkesbury (346) and North Cotswolds (44)

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.