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Fairford & Lechlade

Cotswold · South West · population 9,283 · 6 LSOAs

Postcode GL7

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

84Area Score / 100 ?
  • #1,081 of 6,856 in England
  • #97 of 710 in South West
  • #2 of 11 in Cotswold
  • Least deprived 10-20%
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People living here Census 2021

Residents9,266
Median age (est.)50
Density141per km²
No qualifications13%
Degree or above40%
No car or van8%

Age

0–14 16%15–24 8%25–44 20%45–64 29%65+ 27%

Tenure

Own outright: 43%Mortgage/shared: 30%Social rent: 15%Private rent: 12%
Own outright 43%Mortgage/shared 30%Social rent 15%Private rent 12%

Households

One person: 28%Couple, no children: 20%Couple with children: 26%Lone parent: 8%Other: 19%
One person 28%Couple, no children 20%Couple with children 26%Lone parent 8%Other 19%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 20% · Managers & directors 18% · Associate professional 14%

All occupation groups
Professional20%
Managers & directors18%
Associate professional14%
Skilled trades13%
Administrative9%
Elementary8%
Caring & leisure8%
Sales & customer service6%
Process & plant5%

Ethnic group

White: 97%Asian: 1%Black: 0%Mixed: 2%Other: 0%
White 97%Asian 1%Black 0%Mixed 2%Other 0%

Religion & identity

Christian 56% · No religion 36% · Other 1%

Born outside the UK: 8%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Fairford & Lechlade is in the least-deprived 10–20% of England, ranked #1,081 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #2 of 11 in Cotswold. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Health (94) but weak on Housing & access (18). Typical homes here sold for about £475,000 over the past year, up 20% across five years (from 118 sales), 7% above the wider Cotswold median of £445,000. Typical household take-home income is around £43,791 a year, around the middle of England.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 81 · #1,301
Employment 89 · #732
Education 82 · #1,211
Health 94 · #396
Crime 91 · #622
Housing & access 18 · #5,653
Living environment 67 · #2,240

House prices ?

£475,000median (12m) · +6.7% yr · n=118
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£475,000118+6.7%+19.7%
Detached£590,00060+4.1%+21.6%
Semi-detached£360,00025-7.7%+2.9%
Terraced£316,75028-6.6%+9.5%
Flat£205,0005—+20.6%
This area£475,000
Cotswold£445,000
South West£310,000
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£43,791±£6,130 · #2,369 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£40,894
Price-to-income ?10.8×typical home ÷ net income — more stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

41Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
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Recorded crime

No recorded-crime data: the police force covering Fairford & Lechlade has not published usable street-level data for this period, so no rate or comparison is shown (a zero here would be misleading, not reassuring).

Official sources

Nearby areas

The closest neighbourhoods on the map, whichever authority they fall in.

Northleach, Coln Valley & Ampneys Highworth (Swindon) Burford & Brize Norton (West Oxfordshire) Cricklade & Ashton Keynes (Wiltshire) Carterton South (West Oxfordshire) Carterton North (West Oxfordshire)

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