Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Marling School is the nearest published school at 464 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL5 3EA
Cainscross · Stroud · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Cainscross
- Local authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud
- Postcode district
- GL5
- Postcode sector
- GL5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL5 3EA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL5
- Postcode sector
- GL5 3
- Latitude
- 51.741577
- Longitude
- -2.237975
- British National Grid easting
- 383,665
- British National Grid northing
- 204,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Stroud · E07000082
- Electoral ward
- Cainscross · E05013212
- Parish or community
- E04013025
- Westminster constituency
- Stroud · E14001529
- Output area
- E00113639
- Lower layer super output area
- Stroud 004B · E01022356
- Middle layer super output area
- Stroud 004 · E02004654
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 GL5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 464 m
Marling School
Academy converter
- 536 m
St Matthew's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 628 m
Stroud High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 995
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 296
- Shoplifting 185
- Anti social behaviour 174
- Public order 64
- Criminal damage and arson 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL5 3 residents
- 4,574
Age bands in GL5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
611 residents
409 residents
984 residents
1,244 residents
870 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ROWCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
ROWCROFT RETREAT, STROUD, GL5 3BE
ODS code L84007
1.4 km
BEECHES GREEN SURGERY
STROUD HEALTH CENTRE, BEECHES GREEN, STROUD, GL5 4BH
ODS code L84039
1.4 km
FIVE VALLEYS MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A KING STREET, STROUD, GL5 3BS
ODS code L84077
1.4 km
STONEHOUSE HEALTH CLINIC
25 HIGH STREET, STONEHOUSE, GL10 2NG
ODS code L84613
3.2 km
THE WILLOW TREE PRACTICE
31 HIGH STREET, STONEHOUSE, GL10 2NG
ODS code L84080
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dudbridge Hill Roundabout
BCT · Dudbridge
- 0.1 miles
Dudbridgehill Roundabout
BCT · Dudbridge
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's Store
BCT · Dudbridge
- 0.2 miles
Tricorn House
BCT · Cainscross
- 0.2 miles
Marling School
BCT · Cainscross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stroud 004B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,334 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
995 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 296 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.