Property market
The five-year median is £249,950 from 1 recorded sale in GL17 0DB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Forest of Dean is £288,524 in June 2026, up 1.9% year on year.
GL17 0DB
Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Mitcheldean
- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- GL17
- Postcode sector
- GL17 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL17 0DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL17
- Postcode sector
- GL17 0
- Latitude
- 51.864195
- Longitude
- -2.487146
- British National Grid easting
- 366,552
- British National Grid northing
- 218,513
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Forest of Dean · E07000080
- Electoral ward
- Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook · E05012168
- Parish or community
- E04004314
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00113158
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 003C · E01022258
- Middle layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 003 · E02004628
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore GL17
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 23, Eastern Avenue, Mitcheldean, GL17 0DB | 27 September 2022 | £249,950 |
| 27, Eastern Avenue, Mitcheldean, GL17 0DB | 15 February 2019 | £182,000 |
| 13, Eastern Avenue, Mitcheldean, GL17 0DB | 5 May 2017 | £146,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 266 m
Mitcheldean Endowed Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 591 m
Dene Magna and Sixth Form
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Hope Brook CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 79
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Vehicle crime 7
- Other theft 5
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- GL17 0 residents
- 4,862
25 female, 23 male
Age bands in GL17 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
697 residents
423 residents
941 residents
1,375 residents
1,152 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GL17 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
MITCHELDEAN SURGERY
BROOK STREET, MITCHELDEAN, GL17 0AU
ODS code L84045
212 m
DRYBROOK SURGERY
DRYBROOK ROAD, DRYBROOK, GL17 9JE
ODS code L84024
2.5 km
DOCKHAM SURGERY
CINDERFORD MEDICAL CENTRE, VALLEY ROAD, CINDERFORD, GL14 2NX
ODS code L84046
4.7 km
FOREST HEALTH CARE
VALLEY ROAD, CINDERFORD, GL14 2NX
ODS code L84028
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dunstone Place
BCT · Mitcheldean
- 0.1 miles
Dunstone Place
BCT · Mitcheldean
- 0.1 miles
The Cottage
BCT · Mitcheldean
- 0.1 miles
Mill End School stop
BCT · Mitcheldean
- 0.1 miles
Lamb Inn
BCT · Mitcheldean
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 003C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,307 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Mitcheldean Endowed Primary School is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
79 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.