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Dursley

Dursley is a town in Gloucestershire, England, with a population of around 14,992. It has around 2 GP surgeries, 1 pharmacy, and 4 restaurants and cafés, along with 28 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Cam and Dursley, 3.9 km away. The average sold house price is around £367,235. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Dursley area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Stroud area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 121,103 residents at roughly 263 people per km².

Council
Stroud
County
Gloucestershire
Constituency
Stroud
Police force
Gloucestershire
66/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 34th of 294 English council areas — better than 88% of them.

Low crime76
Home affordability39
Affordable rents55
Good schools64
Life expectancy82
Low deprivation79
Employment90
Low council tax34

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

8°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 11° / 5° · 30% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:07Sunset 16:38

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bristol St Paul's, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

141 reported road collisions (2025)

58 killed or seriously injured · 170 casualties · 11.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

71 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 58 rated 4–5 ★ (46 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Cam and Dursley (3.9 km)
  • 28 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Cam & Dursley (4.0 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£353,416 average▲ 2.2% YoY

Across Stroud · to 2026-08

Detached£555,314
Semi-detached£339,978
Terraced£286,817
Flat£166,366

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,041 average monthly rent▲ 6% YoY

  • 1 bed £744
  • 2 bed £961
  • 3 bed £1,178

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

Affordability

9.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.1 times median annual pay (9.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,672 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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · BP (11.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (11.7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

16 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 120 kW
  • Nearest: Sainsburys Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres3
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches19
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

121,103 residents in Stroud · 263/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,541
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,273
  • Net moves+1,268

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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 234 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,491 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 56,910)

A £1,661
B £1,938
C £2,215
D £2,491
E £3,045
F £3,599
G £4,152
H £4,983

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

Schools

85 schools · 19,099 pupils

58 primary · 8 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 31 of 34 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Stroud High SchoolOutstanding
  • Archway SchoolGood
  • Rednock SchoolGood
  • SGS Berkeley Green UTCGood
  • Katharine Lady Berkeley's School
  • Maidenhill School
  • Marling School
  • Thomas Keble School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Stroud

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Dursley)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 131 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

226 applications decided

84.5% granted · 191 granted, 35 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Dr Simon Opher

Labour

Stroud

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Green (minority)

  • Lab 16
  • Con 6
  • LD 2
  • Grn 24
  • Oth 2

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools5
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies3
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens5
  • Restaurants & cafés20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,545 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

94 jobs advertised · £35,111 avg

e.g. Care Assistant, Senior / Lead Electronics Design Engineer, Mult-Skilled Engineer

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£772 median full-time weekly pay

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

£28,288 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 56,376 certificates

10.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

47% low-carbon electricity

Gas 49% · Wind 25% · Nuclear 20% · Imports 4%

195 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 82.1 yrs men

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

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.1
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Health services

4 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in GL11

  • Cam & Uley Family Practice
  • May Lane Surgery
  • Bvale Assess & Treat (Icats)

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stroud:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Lister Hall · 0.1 km

    Lister Hall is a theatre, in Dursley, Gloucestershire, England, which was formerly part of the social centre for the engineering firm R A Lister and Company, from which it takes its name.

  • Dursley Town Hall · 0.1 km

    Dursley Town Hall, also known as Dursley Market Hall, is a municipal building in the Market Place, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England. The structure, which is mainly used for markets and community events, is a Grade II…

  • Dursley · 0.2 km

    Dursley is a market town and civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England. It lies between the cities of Bristol and Gloucester. It is under the northeast flank of Stinchcombe Hill, and about 4 mile…

  • Dursley railway station · 0.2 km

    Dursley railway station served the town of Dursley in Gloucestershire, England, and was the terminus of the short Dursley and Midland Junction Railway line which linked the town to the Midland Railway's Bristol to Glo…

  • Vale of Berkeley · 0.2 km

    The Vale of Berkeley is an area in Gloucestershire, England. It lies between the River Severn and the Cotswold Edge, north of Bristol and south of Gloucester. It includes the towns of Berkeley, Thornbury, Cam, Dursley…

  • Old Spot Inn · 0.4 km

    The Old Spot Inn is a pub in Dursley, Gloucestershire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Dursley?
Dursley is a town in Gloucestershire, England, in the Stroud local authority.
What is the population of Dursley?
Dursley has an approximate settlement population of 14,992.
How deprived is Dursley?
The Stroud local authority, which includes Dursley, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.