Property market
The five-year median is £450,000 from 1 recorded sale in GL17 9XD. 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 9XD
Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ruardean
- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- GL17
- Postcode sector
- GL17 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL17 9XD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL17
- Postcode sector
- GL17 9
- Latitude
- 51.857067
- Longitude
- -2.545876
- British National Grid easting
- 362,502
- British National Grid northing
- 217,749
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
- E04004321
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00113123
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 003B · E01022252
- 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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Brambley Hedge, Varnister Road, Ruardean, GL17 9XD | 24 June 2024 | £450,000 |
| Harline, Varnister Road, Ruardean, GL17 9XD | 29 July 2021 | £318,000 |
| Brambley Hedge, Varnister Road, Ruardean, GL17 9XD | 21 August 2020 | £425,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 629 m
Ruardean Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.4 km
Woodside Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Drybrook Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 32
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 5
- Other crime 2
- Vehicle crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 38
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- GL17 9 residents
- 6,872
21 female, 17 male
Age bands in GL17 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.3%
997 residents
665 residents
1,268 residents
2,147 residents
1,723 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GL17 9 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
DRYBROOK SURGERY
DRYBROOK ROAD, DRYBROOK, GL17 9JE
ODS code L84024
2.1 km
MITCHELDEAN SURGERY
BROOK STREET, MITCHELDEAN, GL17 0AU
ODS code L84045
4.1 km
DOCKHAM SURGERY
CINDERFORD MEDICAL CENTRE, VALLEY ROAD, CINDERFORD, GL14 2NX
ODS code L84046
4.5 km
FOREST HEALTH CARE
VALLEY ROAD, CINDERFORD, GL14 2NX
ODS code L84028
4.5 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
Old Police House
BCT · Ruardean
- 0.1 miles
Old Police House
BCT · Ruardean
- 0.1 miles
Crooked End Place
BCT · Crooked End
- 0.1 miles
Crooked End Place
BCT · Crooked End
- 0.1 miles
Highfield Road
BCT · Ruardean
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 003B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,481 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- 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
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ruardean Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 629 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
32 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.