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Andoversford

Andoversford is a village in Gloucestershire, England, with a population of around 555. It has 12 bus stops. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Andoversford area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Cotswold area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 90,833 residents at roughly 78 people per km².

Council
Cotswold
County
Gloucestershire
Constituency
The Cotswolds
Police force
Gloucestershire
69/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 22nd of 294 English council areas — better than 93% of them.

Low crime87
Home affordability6
Affordable rents23
Good schools86
Life expectancy87
Low deprivation86
Employment88
Low council tax62

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

16°COvercast

  • Today: 20° / 11° · 49% rain
  • Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:32

12h 56m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Leamington Spa Rugby Road, United Kingdom

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

205 reported road collisions (2024)

56 killed or seriously injured · 302 casualties · 22.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

12 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 12 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • 12 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Cheltenham Spa (9.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£411,764 average 3.2% YoY

Across Cotswold · to 2026-06

Detached£661,465
Semi-detached£392,417
Terraced£334,758
Flat£202,639

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,248 average monthly rent 6% YoY

  • 1 bed £867
  • 2 bed £1,102
  • 3 bed £1,339

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

13.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 13.4 times median annual pay (11.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 161.7p · Asda (11.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Morrisons (9.7 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

9 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Glenfall House (5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools2
  • Sports pitches8
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

90,833 residents in Cotswold · 78/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 58%
  • 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 272 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,392 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 46,250)

A £1,594
B £1,860
C £2,126
D £2,392
E £2,923
F £3,455
G £3,986
H £4,783

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

Schools

56 schools · 13,212 pupils

44 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 24 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (96%)

51inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Farmor's SchoolGood
  • Chipping Campden School
  • Cirencester Deer Park School
  • Cirencester Kingshill School
  • Sir William Romney's School
  • The Cotswold Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cotswold

Care & health services

684 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes200
  • GP practices94
  • Dentists142
  • Homecare agencies181
  • Hospitals & hospices31

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Gloucestershire

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 58 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

319 applications decided

91.5% granted · 292 granted, 27 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Conservative

North Cotswolds

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • NoClosure motion
  • AyeSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • NoDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Con 10
  • LD 22
  • Oth 1

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,750 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

8 jobs advertised

e.g. Be Your Own Boss - Deliver with Uber Eats, Sign Up as A Delivery Person - Earn With Uber Eats, Online Maths Tutoring Job in Dowdeswell – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£811 median full-time weekly pay

2.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£38,447 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 48,999 certificates

11.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

85% low-carbon electricity

Wind 50% · Nuclear 25% · Biomass 9% · Imports 8%

40 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.7 yrs women · 82.8 yrs men

58% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.5
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

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

Health services

3 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in GL54

  • Winchcombe Medical Centre
  • Stow Surgery
  • Cotswold Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North Cotswolds:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Andoversford and Dowdeswell railway station · 0.1 km

    Andoversford and Dowdeswell railway station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in Gloucestershire. The station opened to passengers on 1 August 1891 with the opening of the section of the line betwe…

  • Andoversford Junction railway station · 0.7 km

    Andoversford Junction railway station was in Gloucestershire on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway that opened in 1881. Situated about six miles east of Cheltenham, the station served th…

  • Sandywell Park · 1.3 km

    Sandywell Park is an Jacobean Georgian manor house, five miles east of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. Built in 1704 by Henry Brett, it was extended a few times over the 18th century. In the mid-eighteenth cen…

  • St Mary's Church, Shipton Solars · 1.3 km

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Shipton Sollars, Gloucestershire, England under the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England a…

  • St Bartholomew's Church, Whittington · 1.6 km

    St Bartholomew's Church is an Anglican church in Whittington in Gloucestershire, England. It in the Diocese of Gloucester and in the Coln River Group of Parishes. The earliest parts of the building date from the 11th…

  • Whittington Court · 1.6 km

    Whittington Court is an Elizabethan manor house, five miles east of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Andoversford?
Andoversford is a town in Gloucestershire, England, in the Cotswold local authority.
What is the population of Andoversford?
Andoversford has an approximate settlement population of 555.
How deprived is Andoversford?
The Cotswold local authority, which includes Andoversford, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.