Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Stroud High School is the nearest published school at 112 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL5 4HW
Stroud Central · Stroud · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL5 4HW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2016
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL5
- Postcode sector
- GL5 4
- Latitude
- 51.745122
- Longitude
- -2.232374
- British National Grid easting
- 384,053
- British National Grid northing
- 205,183
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Stroud · E07000082
- Electoral ward
- Stroud Central · E05010986
- Parish or community
- E04013012
- Westminster constituency
- Stroud · E14001529
- Output area
- E00113690
- Lower layer super output area
- Stroud 006F · E01034803
- Middle layer super output area
- Stroud 006 · E02004656
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Firs, 118, Cainscross, Stroud, GL5 4HW | 24 February 2017 | £225,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 112 m
Stroud High School
Academy converter
- 210 m
Marling School
Academy converter
- 509 m
South Gloucestershire and Stroud College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,204
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 367
- Anti social behaviour 214
- Shoplifting 198
- Public order 81
- Other theft 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL5 4 residents
- 10,755
Age bands in GL5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,865 residents
1,157 residents
2,712 residents
3,162 residents
2,469 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
BEECHES GREEN SURGERY
STROUD HEALTH CENTRE, BEECHES GREEN, STROUD, GL5 4BH
ODS code L84039
872 m
ROWCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
ROWCROFT RETREAT, STROUD, GL5 3BE
ODS code L84007
892 m
FIVE VALLEYS MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A KING STREET, STROUD, GL5 3BS
ODS code L84077
963 m
STONEHOUSE HEALTH CLINIC
25 HIGH STREET, STONEHOUSE, GL10 2NG
ODS code L84613
3.5 km
THE WILLOW TREE PRACTICE
31 HIGH STREET, STONEHOUSE, GL10 2NG
ODS code L84080
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Marling and Stroud High Schools
BCT · Stroud
- 0.0 miles
Marling and Stroud High Schools
BCT · Stroud
- 0.0 miles
Marling and Stroud High Schools
BCT · Stroud
- 0.0 miles
Beard's Lane
BCT · Stroud
- 0.0 miles
Marling and Stroud High Schools
BCT · Stroud
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stroud 006F, 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
19,983 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
1,204 published events cover 12 months, averaging 100.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 367 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.