Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Woodside Primary School is the nearest published school at 491 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL17 9YJ
Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 9YJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL17
- Postcode sector
- GL17 9
- Latitude
- 51.848294
- Longitude
- -2.547439
- British National Grid easting
- 362,387
- British National Grid northing
- 216,774
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
- E04004303
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00113111
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 491 m
Woodside Primary School
Community school
- 731 m
Ruardean Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.2 km
Drybrook Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 35
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Other theft 5
- Other crime 2
- Vehicle crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL17 9 residents
- 6,872
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
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
DRYBROOK SURGERY
DRYBROOK ROAD, DRYBROOK, GL17 9JE
ODS code L84024
2.1 km
DOCKHAM SURGERY
CINDERFORD MEDICAL CENTRE, VALLEY ROAD, CINDERFORD, GL14 2NX
ODS code L84046
3.8 km
FOREST HEALTH CARE
VALLEY ROAD, CINDERFORD, GL14 2NX
ODS code L84028
3.8 km
MITCHELDEAN SURGERY
BROOK STREET, MITCHELDEAN, GL17 0AU
ODS code L84045
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Forest Road
BCT · Ruardean Woodside
- 0.1 miles
Forest Road
BCT · Ruardean Woodside
- 0.2 miles
Webley Road
BCT · Ruardean Woodside
- 0.2 miles
Memorial Hall
BCT · Ruardean Woodside
- 0.3 miles
Roebuck Meadows
BCT · Ruardean Woodside
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
35 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.917 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.