Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. St Edward's School is the nearest published school at 405 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL53 8DT
Charlton Kings · Cheltenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Cheltenham
- Ward
- Charlton Kings
- Local authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham
- Postcode district
- GL53
- Postcode sector
- GL53 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL53 8DT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL53
- Postcode sector
- GL53 8
- Latitude
- 51.888944
- Longitude
- -2.057602
- British National Grid easting
- 396,132
- British National Grid northing
- 221,155
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cheltenham · E07000078
- Electoral ward
- Charlton Kings · E05015707
- Parish or community
- E04012753
- Westminster constituency
- Cheltenham · E14001161
- Output area
- E00112367
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheltenham 012F · E01022111
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheltenham 012 · E02004611
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 GL53
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Birch Mews, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8DT | 2 March 2021 | £800,000 |
| 1, Birch Mews, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8DT | 4 November 2020 | £950,000 |
| 3, Birch Mews, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8DT | 5 October 2020 | £835,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 49
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 405 m
St Edward's School
Other independent school
- 516 m
Ashley Manor Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 800 m
Charlton Kings Infants' School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,371
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 403
- Anti social behaviour 246
- Shoplifting 200
- Public order 109
- Vehicle crime 102
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- GL53 8 residents
- 5,447
4 female, 5 male
Age bands in GL53 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.2%
1,220 residents
610 residents
1,061 residents
1,801 residents
1,187 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GL53 8 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+
- 75%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- 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 straight-line
SIXWAYS CLINIC
LONDON ROAD, CHARLTON KINGS, CHELTENHAM, GL52 6HS
ODS code L84015
263 m
THE LECKHAMPTON SURGERY
17 MOOREND PARK ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL53 0LA
ODS code L84040
2.0 km
OVERTON PARK SURGERY
OVERTON PARK ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3BP
ODS code L84041
2.2 km
YORKLEIGH SURGERY(CT)
93 ST. GEORGES ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3ED
ODS code L84022
2.2 km
BERKELEY PLACE SURGERY
WILSON HEALTH CENTRE, 236 PRESTBURY ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL52 3EY
ODS code L84030
2.4 km
ROYAL CRESCENT SURGERY
WILSON HEALTH CENTRE, 236 PRESTBURY ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL52 3EY
ODS code L84059
2.4 km
ST. CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. PAULS MEDICAL CENTRE, 121 SWINDON ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL50 4DP
ODS code L84058
2.6 km
ST. GEORGE'S SURGERY
ST. PAULS MEDICAL CENTRE, 121 SWINDON ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL50 4DP
ODS code L84008
2.6 km
THE ROYAL WELL SURGERY
ST. PAULS MEDICAL CENTRE, 121 SWINDON ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL50 4DP
ODS code L84049
2.6 km
WESTON HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS MEDICAL CENTRE, 121 SWINDON ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL50 4DP
ODS code L84033
2.6 km
UNDERWOOD SURGERY
139 ST. GEORGES ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3EQ
ODS code L84003
2.6 km
WEST CHELTENHAM MEDICAL
HESTERS WAY RESOURCE CTR, CASSIN DRIVE, CHELTENHAM, GL51 7SU
ODS code Y05212
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Charlton Court Road
BCT · Cheltenham
- 0.1 miles
Charlton Court Road
BCT · Cheltenham
- 0.1 miles
Holy Apostles Church
BCT · Charlton Kings
- 0.1 miles
Six Ways Shops
BCT · Charlton Kings
- 0.2 miles
Coronation Flats
BCT · Ewens Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheltenham 012F, 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
31,945 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,371 published events cover 12 months, averaging 114.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 403 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.