Tewkesbury

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• Today: 10° / 5° · 23% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:33

9h 23m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

• 6.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

139 reported road collisions (2025)

46 killed or seriously injured · 201 casualties · 14.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

48 food businesses within 2 miles

• 43 rated 4–5 ★ (41 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Cheltenham Racecourse (4.1 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£323,497 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across Tewkesbury · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,093 average monthly rent▲ 13.4% YoY

• 1 bed £746
• 2 bed £978
• 3 bed £1,243

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (8.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,582 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (8.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.7p · Asda (11.8 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

31 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: Gallagher Shopping (2.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches3
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Keep devolution options open, says Tewkesbury Borough Council Leader· 30 Oct 2026
• Councils confirm revised timetable for Strategic and Local Plan· 23 Oct 2026
• Autumn adventures across Tewkesbury Borough this half term· 22 Oct 2026
• Council cuts carbon footprint by almost half since climate emergency declaration· 20 Oct 2026
• Step back in time at the Mayor of Tewkesbury Borough’s Grand Regency Charity Ball· 5 Oct 2026

Source: Tewkesbury Council

94,884 residents in Tewkesbury · 229/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,225
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,070
• Net moves+2,155

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 254 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,341 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 46,250)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

44 schools · 14,434 pupils

33 primary · 6 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 18 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (78%)

42 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tewkesbury

687 CQC-registered services

• Care homes200
• GP practices96
• Dentists142
• Homecare agencies182
• Hospitals & hospices31

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Gloucestershire

• Within the Green Belt
• 21 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

190 applications decided

87.4% granted · 166 granted, 24 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Liberal Democrat / Independent / Green coalition

• Con 8
• LD 16
• Grn 4
• Ref 1
• Oth 9

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

5,060 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

452 jobs advertised · £40,693 avg

e.g. Roadside Vehicle Technician, Roadside Vehicle Mechanic, Roadside Technician - Cheltenham

Source: Adzuna

£785 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,365 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

53% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 44,652 certificates

7.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 84.7 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Gloucestershire): 63.4 women · 63.4 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Tewkesbury:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks300 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Ensure people whose parent had breast cancer under 45 can access genetic testing254 local signatures · 16,354 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases226 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND208 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth196 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• RAF Stoke Orchard · 0.7 km

  Royal Air Force Stoke Orchard or more simply RAF Stoke Orchard is a former Royal Air Force station near the village of Stoke Orchard, north west of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire during the Second World War.

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  Elmstone Hardwicke · 1.0 km

  Elmstone Hardwicke is a village and sizeable parish north-west of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England.

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  Stoke Orchard · 1.3 km

  Stoke Orchard is a village or hamlet approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England.

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  Cleeve railway station · 1.8 km

  Cleeve railway station was a station in Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire, England. The station was named for the nearby village of Bishop's Cleeve.

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  Wingmoor Farm Meadow · 2.0 km

  Wingmoor Farm Meadow is a 3-hectare (7.4-acre) nature reserve in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Tewkesbury Borough Local Plan to 2011’, adopted March 2006, Appendix 3 'Nature Conservation',' as a Key Wild…

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  Uckington, Gloucestershire · 2.1 km

  Uckington is a village in the Borough of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. It is directly west of Cheltenham.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)