Property market
The five-year median is £325,000 from 1 recorded sale in GL4 5SQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Gloucester is £240,887 in June 2026, up 5.6% year on year.
GL4 5SQ
Abbeymead · Gloucester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gloucester
- Ward
- Abbeymead
- Local authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester
- Postcode district
- GL4
- Postcode sector
- GL4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL4 5SQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL4
- Postcode sector
- GL4 5
- Latitude
- 51.843384
- Longitude
- -2.193949
- British National Grid easting
- 386,735
- British National Grid northing
- 216,104
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Gloucester · E07000081
- Electoral ward
- Abbeymead · E05010951
- Parish or community
- E43000067
- Westminster constituency
- Gloucester · E14001248
- Output area
- E00113268
- Lower layer super output area
- Gloucester 010D · E01022281
- Middle layer super output area
- Gloucester 010 · E02004645
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 GL4
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Desford Close, Abbeymead, Gloucester, GL4 5SQ | 26 May 2023 | £325,000 |
| 1, Desford Close, Abbeymead, Gloucester, GL4 5SQ | 3 January 2018 | £252,000 |
| 1, Desford Close, Abbeymead, Gloucester, GL4 5SQ | 9 July 2015 | £214,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 10
- 396 m
Abbeymead Primary School
Community school
- 859 m
Coopers Edge School
Foundation school
- 1.0 km
Upton St Leonards Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 803
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 328
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Shoplifting 69
- Other theft 45
- Criminal damage and arson 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- GL4 5 residents
- 8,356
9 female, 3 male
Age bands in GL4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,411 residents
899 residents
2,061 residents
2,513 residents
1,574 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GL4 5 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
12
within 5 km
HADWEN HEALTH
GLEVUM WAY, ABBEYDALE, GLOUCESTER, GL4 4BL
ODS code L84009
745 m
HUCCLECOTE SURGERY
5A BROOKFIELD ROAD, HUCCLECOTE, GLOUCESTER, GL3 3HB
ODS code L84014
1.5 km
BROCKWORTH SURGERY
ABBOTSWOOD ROAD, BROCKWORTH, GLOUCESTER, GL3 4PE
ODS code L84084
2.6 km
ASPEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASPEN CENTRE, HORTON ROAD, GLOUCESTER, GL1 3PX
ODS code L84026
3.3 km
ROSEBANK SURGERY
153B STROUD ROAD, GLOUCESTER, GL1 5JQ
ODS code L84050
3.5 km
PARTNERS IN HEALTH, PAVILION FAMILY DRS
153A STROUD ROAD, GLOUCESTER, GL1 5JJ
ODS code L84034
3.5 km
LONGLEVENS SURGERY
19B CHURCH ROAD, LONGLEVENS, GLOUCESTER, GL2 0AJ
ODS code L84067
3.8 km
THE HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
RIKENEL, MONTPELLIER, GLOUCESTER, GL1 1LY
ODS code Y00054
4.0 km
KINGSHOLM SURGERY
ALVIN STREET, GLOUCESTER, GL1 3EN
ODS code L84081
4.1 km
CHURCHDOWN SURGERY
PARTON ROAD, CHURCHDOWN, GLOUCESTER, GL3 2JH
ODS code L84047
4.6 km
GLOUCESTER HEALTH ACCESS CENTRE
QUAYSIDE HOUSE, QUAY STREET, GLOUCESTER, GL1 2TZ
ODS code Y02519
4.7 km
SEVERNSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUAYSIDE HOUSE, QUAY STREET, GLOUCESTER, GL1 2TZ
ODS code L84052
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
Palmer Avenue
BCT · Abbeymead
- 0.1 miles
Palmer Avenue School Stop
BCT · Abbeymead
- 0.1 miles
Brome Road
BCT · Abbeymead
- 0.1 miles
Laurel Gate
BCT · Abbeymead
- 0.1 miles
Laurel Gate
BCT · Abbeymead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gloucester 010D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,889 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
59 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 10 secondary schools. Abbeymead Primary School is the nearest published school at 396 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
803 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.