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Patchway

Patchway is a town in Gloucestershire, England, with a population of around 15,000. It has 49 bus stops, one pharmacy, and around 30 restaurants and cafés, with the nearest railway station being Patchway, 1.6 km away. There were around 190 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Patchway area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the South Gloucestershire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 290,424 residents at roughly 584 people per km².

Council
South Gloucestershire
County
Gloucestershire
Constituency
Filton and Bradley Stoke
Police force
Avon and Somerset
63/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 61st of 294 English council areas — better than 79% of them.

Low crime68
Home affordability54
Affordable rents30
Good schools56
Life expectancy80
Low deprivation84
Employment92
Low council tax21

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

12°CClear

  • Today: 21° / 11° · 41% rain
  • Tomorrow: 22° / 15° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:38Sunset 19:34

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Crime

238 reported · July 2026 13% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences99
  • Anti-social behaviour33
  • Criminal damage & arson27
  • Vehicle crime16

Neighbourhood team: Patchway and Cribbs Causeway · Avon And Somerset

Local policing priorities

  • Ongoing ASB with youths gathering at the Green Space known as Green Spine
  • NPT have been receiving increasing reports of Anti-Social Behaviour in the Charlton Hayes/Patchway area with E-bikes and mopeds.

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

321 reported road collisions (2024)

45 killed or seriously injured · 424 casualties · 11.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

277 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 216 rated 4–5 ★ (190 top)
  • 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

1 active warning/alert

  • Flood alert: Tidal River Avon at Bristol, Pill and Shirehampton

Source: Environment Agency

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Patchway (1.5 km)
  • 48 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Patchway (1.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£340,300 average 2.3% YoY

Across South Gloucestershire · to 2026-06

Detached£560,532
Semi-detached£374,905
Terraced£296,347
Flat£178,243

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,456 average monthly rent 4.5% YoY

  • 1 bed £994
  • 2 bed £1,267
  • 3 bed £1,547

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

Affordability

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (0.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (0.7 km)

29 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

76 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 36 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Coniston Road Car Park (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Gyms1
  • Swimming pools4
  • Sports pitches37
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

290,424 residents in South Gloucestershire · 584/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 267 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,551 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (29% of 129,040)

A £1,700
B £1,984
C £2,267
D £2,551
E £3,117
F £3,684
G £4,251
H £5,101

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

Schools

125 schools · 42,025 pupils

93 primary · 14 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 51 of 57 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

117inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Chipping Sodbury SchoolGood
  • Digitech Studio SchoolGood
  • Hanham Woods AcademyGood
  • Mangotsfield SchoolGood
  • Marlwood SchoolGood
  • Sir Bernard Lovell AcademyGood
  • Winterbourne AcademyGood
  • Yate AcademyGood
  • Abbeywood Community School
  • Brimsham Green School
  • Downend School
  • John Cabot Academy
  • Patchway Community School
  • The Castle School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Gloucestershire

Care & health services

282 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes82
  • GP practices38
  • Dentists42
  • Homecare agencies83
  • Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · South Gloucestershire

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

379 applications decided

88.7% granted · 336 granted, 43 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Claire Hazelgrove

Labour

Filton and Bradley Stoke

Recent votes:

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

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat / Labour coalition

  • Lab 14
  • Con 23
  • LD 18
  • Grn 1
  • Oth 5

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools10
  • GPs & clinics8
  • Pharmacies4
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens45
  • Restaurants & cafés31

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

12,590 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

62 jobs advertised · £38,702 avg

e.g. Be Your Own Boss - Deliver with Uber Eats, Delivery Opportunities Near Me? - Deliver with Uber Eats, Airworthiness & Certification Consultant

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£793 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,750 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 124,171 certificates

7.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

5% low-carbon electricity

Gas 95% · Wind 5%

376 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 64 women · 64.2 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.7
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Filton and Bradley Stoke:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Patchway Community School · 0.7 km

    Patchway Community School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Almondsbury in the English county of Gloucestershire.

  • Patchway · 0.8 km

    Patchway is a town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, situated 6 mi (9.7 km) north-northwest of central Bristol. The town has become an overflow settlement for Bristol and is contiguous with Bristol's…

  • Stoke Lodge · 1.0 km

    Stoke Lodge is a suburb of Bristol, England, developed in the 1950s and early 1960s on farmland to the south of Patchway Common, South Gloucestershire and east of the A38 trunk road. Although the busy London to South…

  • Charlton Hayes · 1.0 km

    Charlton Hayes is a mixed-use development and civil parish in the South Gloucestershire district of Gloucestershire, England. Part of the suburban North Fringe of Bristol, it is located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Brist…

  • Bristol Cars · 1.1 km

    Bristol Cars was a British manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars headquartered in Bristol, England. It was formed from the car division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company after the Second World War and later became ind…

  • Aztec West · 1.1 km

    Aztec West is a business park in South Gloucestershire, England, situated in the north of Bristol, near Bradley Stoke and Patchway. It is close to the M4 and M5 motorways and the Almondsbury Interchange. Adjacent is t…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Patchway?
Patchway is a town in Gloucestershire, England, in the South Gloucestershire local authority.
How deprived is Patchway?
The South Gloucestershire local authority, which includes Patchway, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.