Ruspidge

Ruspidge is covered by postcode district GL14. It is in the Forest of Dean council area, Gloucestershire.

Typical price £237,500 Homes sold in Ruspidge, last 12 months. ▲ 1.1% on the year before Gigabit broadband 46 of 63 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 64 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 27 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Ruspidge, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Ruspidge, by flood risk Of the 64 postcodes in Ruspidge that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Ruspidge. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. GL14 3AA: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AB: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AD: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AE: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AF: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AG: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AH: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AJ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AL: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AN: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AP: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AR: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AS: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AT: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AU: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AX: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AY: not on the flood risk listGL14 3AZ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3BA: not on the flood risk listGL14 3BB: not on the flood risk listGL14 3BD: not on the flood risk listGL14 3BE: not on the flood risk listGL14 3BG: not on the flood risk listGL14 3BQ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DH: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DJ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DL: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DN: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DP: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DQ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DR: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DS: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DT: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DU: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DW: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DX: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DY: not on the flood risk listGL14 3DZ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3EA: not on the flood risk listGL14 3ED: not on the flood risk listGL14 3EE: not on the flood risk listGL14 3EF: not on the flood risk listGL14 3EG: not on the flood risk listGL14 3EJ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3EQ: not on the flood risk listGL14 3ES: not on the flood risk listGL14 3ET: not on the flood risk listGL14 3EU: not on the flood risk listGL14 3FB: not on the flood risk listGL14 3FD: not on the flood risk listGL14 3FG: not on the flood risk listGL14 3GA: not on the flood risk listGL14 3GB: not on the flood risk listGL14 3GD: not on the flood risk listGL14 3GE: not on the flood risk listGL14 3HL: not on the flood risk listGL14 3HP: not on the flood risk listGL14 3HS: not on the flood risk listGL14 3YA: not on the flood risk listGL14 3HJ: medium flood risk at worstGL14 3AW: high flood riskGL14 3EZ: high flood riskGL14 3HB: high flood riskGL14 3HH: high flood risk Ruspidge Map of every postcode in Ruspidge, by flood risk Of the 64 postcodes in Ruspidge that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Ruspidge. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Ruspidge
  • A home or business at high risk: 4
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 59

Of the 64 postcodes in Ruspidge that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 59 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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8072, longitude -2.5050. 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.

GL14 3HH8 at high riskGL14 3AW2 at high riskGL14 3EZ2 at high riskGL14 3HB1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Ruspidge?

Homes sold for a typical £237,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.1% on the 12 months before. At 46 of the 63 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 27 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 64 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Dockham Surgery, 1.9 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lydney, 10.5 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 Ruspidge?

Homes in Ruspidge sold for a typical £237,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 18 sales, up 1.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£237,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£235,000
12 months to August 2026
£237,500

▲ up 1.1% on the 12 months before

Detached£330,000 6 sales
Semi-detached£237,500 6 sales
Terraced£227,500 6 sales

Across the whole GL14 district, Ruspidge's main postcode district: a typical £238,750.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ruspidge: 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 Ruspidge?

2 of the 64 postcodes now in use in Ruspidge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 39 homes sold in Ruspidge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL14 district, 6%.

The newest postcodes

GL14 3BQsince August 2025GL14 3FGsince July 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 RuspidgeAcross the GL14 district
The 12 months to August 2026 1 of 18 (6%) 1 of 146 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 39 (0%) 13 of 217 (6%)

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 Ruspidge?

Ofcom reports on 63 of the 64 postcodes in Ruspidge. At 46 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit46 of 63
Postcodes where every home can get superfast58 of 63
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 63

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.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Ruspidge at risk of flooding?

5 of the 64 postcodes in Ruspidge 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 27 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 64 postcodes High: 13Medium: 14Low: 9

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 Ruspidge?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Ruspidge. 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 Ruspidge?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ruspidge is Lydney Rail Station, 10.5 km away in a straight line.

  • Lydney Rail Station Railway station 10.5 kmDrive
  • Cam & Dursley Rail Station Railway station 14.1 kmDrive
  • Stonehouse Rail Station Railway station 16.9 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 Ruspidge?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Ruspidge. 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 Ruspidge safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 317 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ruspidge 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. 33 February 2025
  2. 27 March 2025
  3. 23 April 2025
  4. 22 May 2025
  5. 36 June 2025
  6. 22 July 2025
  7. 38 August 2025
  8. 28 September 2025
  9. 24 October 2025
  10. 22 November 2025
  11. 16 December 2025
  12. 26 January 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences157 reports
Anti-social behaviour61 reports
Criminal damage and arson31 reports
Other theft19 reports
Public order13 reports
Burglary11 reports
Other crime11 reports
Vehicle crime7 reports

Also: possession of weapons 3, robbery 2, bicycle theft 1, drugs 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 Ruspidge?

District, borough or city council
Forest of Dean
County council
Gloucestershire
Parliamentary constituency
Forest of Dean
Police force area
Gloucestershire
Region
South West
Country
England
MP
Matt Bishop (Labour)

All 64 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Ruspidge postcodes

64 postcodes in use in Ruspidge, by district:

GL14 postcode district,64 postcodes

That district is in the GL postcode area.

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Places near Ruspidge

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Ruspidge's £237,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Cinderford1.9 km, £216,000Newnham3.8 km, £272,500Drybrook5.4 km, £275,000Blakeney5.5 km, £345,000Yorkley and Whitecroft5.9 km, £318,000Mitcheldean6.5 km, £226,000Welsh Bicknor6.5 km, £260,000Broadwell and Coalway6.6 km, £268,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Ruspidge

What is it like to live in Ruspidge?
Homes sold for a typical £237,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.1% on the 12 months before. At 46 of the 63 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 27 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 64 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Dockham Surgery, 1.9 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lydney, 10.5 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 Ruspidge?
Ruspidge is covered by postcode district GL14, across 64 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Ruspidge in?
Ruspidge is in the Forest of Dean council area, and Gloucestershire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Ruspidge?
Ruspidge is in the Forest of Dean parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Matt Bishop (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Ruspidge?
Homes in Ruspidge sold for a typical £237,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 18 sales, up 1.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Ruspidge?
In Ruspidge, primary schools at its postcodes include St White's Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is SGS Forest High School, 2.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Ruspidge have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ruspidge is Lydney, 10.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Ruspidge?
Ofcom reports on 63 of the 64 postcodes in Ruspidge. At 46 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 Ruspidge at risk of flooding?
5 of the 64 postcodes in Ruspidge 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 27 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 Ruspidge?
2 of the 64 postcodes now in use in Ruspidge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 39 homes sold in Ruspidge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL14 district, 6%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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