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Stoke Orchard

Stoke Orchard is a village in Gloucestershire, England. It has 8 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Cheltenham Racecourse, 4.5 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Stoke Orchard area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Tewkesbury area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 94,884 residents at roughly 229 people per km².

Council
Tewkesbury
County
Gloucestershire
Constituency
Tewkesbury
Police force
Gloucestershire
64/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 51st of 294 English council areas — better than 83% of them.

Low crime80
Home affordability58
Affordable rents67
Good schools14
Life expectancy67
Low deprivation82
Employment78
Low council tax73

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

21°COvercast

  • Today: 22° / 11° · 67% rain
  • Tomorrow: 22° / 16° · Overcast

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

10US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

169 reported road collisions (2024)

49 killed or seriously injured · 237 casualties · 17.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

18 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 16 rated 4–5 ★ (16 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Cheltenham Racecourse (4.5 km)
  • 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Ashchurch for Tewkesbury (4.9 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£329,883 average 5.9% YoY

Across Tewkesbury · to 2026-06

Detached£526,305
Semi-detached£324,282
Terraced£257,021
Flat£146,746

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,086 average monthly rent 13.1% YoY

  • 1 bed £742
  • 2 bed £973
  • 3 bed £1,236

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

Affordability

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (9.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Morrisons (8.1 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

29 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 175 kW
  • Nearest: Gallagher Shopping (3.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches2
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

94,884 residents in Tewkesbury · 229/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 261 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,341 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,560
B £1,820
C £2,080
D £2,341
E £2,861
F £3,381
G £3,901
H £4,681

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

Schools

44 schools · 14,434 pupils

33 primary · 6 secondary · 5 other

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

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

Secondary schools:

  • Henley Bank High SchoolGood
  • Winchcombe SchoolGood
  • Chosen Hill School
  • Churchdown School
  • Cleeve School
  • Tewkesbury Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tewkesbury

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
  • 13 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

193 applications decided

89.6% granted · 173 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Cameron Thomas

Independent

Tewkesbury

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeHealth Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat / Independent / Green coalition

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

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,985 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

7 jobs advertised

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Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

97% low-carbon electricity

Wind 67% · Solar 15% · Nuclear 14% · Gas 3%

14 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for West Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.7 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • 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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Tewkesbury:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Stoke Orchard · 0.2 km

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

  • RAF Stoke Orchard · 0.8 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.

  • Cleeve railway station · 1.0 km

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

  • Wingmoor Farm Meadow · 1.7 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…

  • St John the Baptist's Church, Tredington · 2.2 km

    St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Tredington, Gloucestershire, England, and in the Diocese of Gloucester. It is Grade I listed. The earliest parts of the church date from the 12th century, and the…

  • Tredington, Gloucestershire · 2.2 km

    Tredington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stoke Orchard near Tewkesbury, in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The village has a church and a school. In 193…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

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