Whaddon (Stroud)

13°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 10° · 9% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:39

13h 8m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chepstow A48, United Kingdom

200 reported road collisions (2024)

47 killed or seriously injured · 244 casualties · 15.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

91 food businesses within 2 miles

• 85 rated 4–5 ★ (75 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Gloucester (5.0 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£240,887 average▲ 5.6% YoY

Across Gloucester · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,112 average monthly rent▲ 7.4% YoY

• 1 bed £743
• 2 bed £968
• 3 bed £1,208

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

7.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.2 times median annual pay (7.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 155.7p · Asda (4.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 176.7p · Asda (4.6 km)

15 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

43 charging locations within ~8 km

• 18 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Westmorland Gloucester Services Southbound (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Sports pitches11
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

132,416 residents in Gloucester · 3,267/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 138 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,356 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (29% of 60,120)

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

51 schools · 23,623 pupils

34 primary · 9 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 21 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

45inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Gloucester

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

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

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

100 applications decided

77% granted · 77 granted, 23 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Liberal Democrat (minority)

• Lab 7
• Con 10
• LD 17
• Oth 5

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

• Schools2
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens16
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,845 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£694 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,428 disposable income per head (2024)

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

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 65,016 certificates

8.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 83.3 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Gloucester:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s419 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership410 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test395 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office339 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases227 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Gloucester Services · 0.5 km

  Gloucester Services are a pair of motorway service areas (MSA) serving the northbound and southbound carriageways of the M5 between junction 11A and junction 12, near Whaddon, Gloucestershire, England. It specialises…

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  Range Farm Fields · 0.7 km

  Range Farm Fields is a 12.8-hectare (32-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, near to Gloucester City, notified in 1996.

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  Matson, Gloucester · 1.3 km

  Matson is a suburb of Gloucester, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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  Wynstones School · 1.5 km

  Wynstones School was a Steiner Waldorf school in Gloucestershire, set on 11 acres near Gloucester. It took pupils from pre-school through to university entrance and has an enrolment of around 275 students.

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  St Margaret's Church, Whaddon · 1.5 km

  St Margaret's Church is a 13th-century Church of England church in the village of Whaddon, Gloucestershire, England. It has been a grade II* listed building since 10 January 1955. The church tower is a dominant featur…

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  Robinswood Hill · 1.5 km

  Robinswood Hill is a hill and country park to the south of the city centre of Gloucester, close to the Stroud Road (A4173). It rises to 650 ft, and is owned and managed by Gloucester City Council's Countryside Unit. T…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)