Gloucester
Gloucester is covered by postcode districts GL1, GL2, GL3 and GL4. It is mostly in the Gloucester council area: 2,753 of its 2,797 postcodes. The others are in Tewkesbury and Stroud.
Every postcode in Gloucester, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 55
- In use before 2020: 2,742
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 2,797 postcodes in Gloucester that ONS places, 55 are new since 2020 and 2,742 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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 51.8538, longitude -2.2297. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Gloucester?
Homes sold for a typical £255,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. 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 at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 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.
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 Gloucester?
Homes in Gloucester sold for a typical £255,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,212 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 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. 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 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
| Period | In Gloucester | Across the GL4 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 4 of 1,212 (Under 1%) | 13 of 501 (3%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 32 of 1,724 (2%) | 64 of 790 (8%) |
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 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.
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 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, 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 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.
Primary
- Hatherley Infant School150 m 190 pupils, 180 places
- Tredworth Infant and Nursery Academy450 m 216 pupils, 240 places
- St James' Church of England Junior School450 m 186 pupils, 236 places
- Tredworth Junior School650 m 310 pupils, 320 places
- Al Ashraf Primary School650 m 136 pupils, 235 places
- Finlay Community School750 m 412 pupils, 420 places
- Widden Primary School900 m 438 pupils, 420 places
- Coney Hill Community Primary School950 m 241 pupils, 210 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 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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
- 579 February 2025
- 700 March 2025
- 544 April 2025
- 645 May 2025
- 659 June 2025
- 686 July 2025
- 773 August 2025
- 642 September 2025
- 609 October 2025
- 578 November 2025
- 565 December 2025
- 596 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.
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 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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Gloucester
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Gloucester is in Gloucester; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Gloucester about council tax Council tax, on gloucester.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Gloucester
- 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
Gloucester postcodes
2,797 postcodes in use in Gloucester, by district:
Those districts are all in the GL postcode area.
Check a Gloucester 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 Gloucester
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Gloucester's £255,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Gloucester
- What is it like to live in Gloucester?
- Homes sold for a typical £255,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. 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 at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 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. 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 Gloucester?
- Gloucester is covered by postcode districts GL1, GL2, GL3 and GL4, across 2,797 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Gloucester?
- Homes in Gloucester sold for a typical £255,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,212 sales, no change on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Gloucester?
- In Gloucester, primary schools at its postcodes include Hatherley Infant School, Tredworth Infant and Nursery Academy and St James' Church of England Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls, Gloucester Academy and Ribston Hall High School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Gloucester have a railway station?
- Yes: Gloucester is 1.4 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Gloucester, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 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. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 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. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- 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%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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