Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Croft Primary School is the nearest published school at 497 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL6 6WZ
Painswick and Upton · Stroud · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Painswick and Upton
- Local authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds
- Postcode district
- GL6
- Postcode sector
- GL6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL6 6WZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2004
- Terminated
- 1 October 2005
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL6
- Postcode sector
- GL6 6
- Latitude
- 51.783490
- Longitude
- -2.196373
- British National Grid easting
- 386,550
- British National Grid northing
- 209,443
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Stroud · E07000082
- Electoral ward
- Painswick and Upton · E05010981
- Parish or community
- E04004372
- Westminster constituency
- North Cotswolds · E14001386
- Output area
- E00113829
- Lower layer super output area
- Stroud 002B · E01022390
- Middle layer super output area
- Stroud 002 · E02004652
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 GL6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 497 m
The Croft Primary School
Community school
- 2.9 km
Sheepscombe Primary School
Community school
- 3.5 km
Whiteshill Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 52
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 26
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 4
- Public order 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL6 6 residents
- 4,735
Age bands in GL6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.7%
551 residents
316 residents
639 residents
1,314 residents
1,310 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
HOYLAND HOUSE
GYDE ROAD, PAINSWICK, STROUD, GL6 6RD
ODS code L84025
849 m
BEECHES GREEN SURGERY
STROUD HEALTH CENTRE, BEECHES GREEN, STROUD, GL5 4BH
ODS code L84039
4.4 km
FIVE VALLEYS MEDICAL PRACTICE
1A KING STREET, STROUD, GL5 3BS
ODS code L84077
4.5 km
ROWCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
ROWCROFT RETREAT, STROUD, GL5 3BE
ODS code L84007
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Stamages Lane Car Park
BCT · Painswick
- 0.2 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Painswick
- 0.2 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Painswick
- 0.3 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Painswick
- 0.3 miles
Rugby Club
BCT · Painswick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stroud 002B, 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
22,674 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
52 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 26 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.