Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 4 secondary schools. Thrupp School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL5 5DF
Amberley and Woodchester · Stroud · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL5 5DF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL5
- Postcode sector
- GL5 5
- Latitude
- 51.721052
- Longitude
- -2.213431
- British National Grid easting
- 385,353
- British National Grid northing
- 202,502
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Stroud · E07000082
- Electoral ward
- Amberley and Woodchester · E05013187
- Parish or community
- E04013007
- Westminster constituency
- Stroud · E14001529
- Output area
- E00113847
- Lower layer super output area
- Stroud 007A · E01022393
- Middle layer super output area
- Stroud 007 · E02004657
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
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia Cottage, Houndscroft, Rodborough, Stroud, GL5 5DF | 13 January 2017 | £620,000 |
| Appletree Cottage, Houndscroft, Rodborough, Stroud, GL5 5DF | 11 August 2016 | £437,000 |
| The Byre, Houndscroft, Rodborough, Stroud, GL5 5DF | 11 August 2016 | £155,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.2 km
Thrupp School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Amberley Parochial School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Woodchester Endowed Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 82
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 21
- Public order 16
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Criminal damage and arson 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- GL5 5 residents
- 3,625
14 female, 9 male
Age bands in GL5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.3%
514 residents
295 residents
524 residents
1,142 residents
1,183 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GL5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km
FIVE VALLEYS MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A KING STREET, STROUD, GL5 3BS
ODS code L84077
2.8 km
ROWCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
ROWCROFT RETREAT, STROUD, GL5 3BE
ODS code L84007
2.8 km
BEECHES GREEN SURGERY
STROUD HEALTH CENTRE, BEECHES GREEN, STROUD, GL5 4BH
ODS code L84039
3.0 km
MINCHINHAMPTON SURGERY
CIRENCESTER ROAD, MINCHINHAMPTON, STROUD, GL6 9FB
ODS code L84005
3.0 km
PRICES MILL SURGERY
NEWMARKET ROAD, NAILSWORTH, STROUD, GL6 0DQ
ODS code L84065
3.1 km
FRITHWOOD SURGERY
45 TANGLEWOOD WAY, CHALFORD, BUSSAGE, STROUD, GL6 8DE
ODS code L84016
3.7 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
Bear Inn
BCT · Rodborough Common
- 0.1 miles
Bear Inn
BCT · Rodborough Common
- 0.1 miles
Bownham Park
BCT · Amberley
- 0.2 miles
Amberley Ridge School
BCT · Burleigh
- 0.3 miles
Moor Court
BCT · Amberley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stroud 007A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,250 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
Recorded crime
82 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.