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Kingsholm & Wotton

Gloucester · South West · population 9,550 · 5 LSOAs

Postcode GL1 · GL2

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

33Area Score / 100 ?
  • #4,564 of 6,856 in England
  • #578 of 710 in South West
  • #10 of 15 in Gloucester
  • More deprived (bottom 40%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents9,328
Median age (est.)40
Density3,137per km²
No qualifications17%
Degree or above33%
No car or van29%

Age

0–14 14%15–24 15%25–44 27%45–64 26%65+ 19%

Tenure

Own outright: 30%Mortgage/shared: 25%Social rent: 14%Private rent: 31%
Own outright 30%Mortgage/shared 25%Social rent 14%Private rent 31%

Households

One person: 40%Couple, no children: 16%Couple with children: 20%Lone parent: 8%Other: 16%
One person 40%Couple, no children 16%Couple with children 20%Lone parent 8%Other 16%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 22% · Associate professional 13% · Caring & leisure 12%

All occupation groups
Professional22%
Associate professional13%
Caring & leisure12%
Elementary11%
Administrative10%
Managers & directors9%
Skilled trades8%
Sales & customer service8%
Process & plant7%

Ethnic group

White: 83%Asian: 10%Black: 3%Mixed: 3%Other: 1%
White 83%Asian 10%Black 3%Mixed 3%Other 1%

Religion & identity

Christian 51% · No religion 37% · Muslim 3%

Born outside the UK: 19%

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

Kingsholm & Wotton is in the more-deprived bottom 40% of England, ranked #4,564 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #10 of 15 in Gloucester. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Housing & access (79) but weak on Health (14). Typical homes here sold for about £225,000 over the past year, broadly flat over five years (+3%) (from 143 sales), 11% below the wider Gloucester median of £253,000. Typical household take-home income is around £36,119 a year, in the bottom third of England.

Themed scores ?

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

Income 45 · #3,768
Employment 36 · #4,406
Education 47 · #3,618
Health 14 · #5,866
Crime 20 · #5,468
Housing & access 79 · #1,465
Living environment 30 · #4,803

House prices ?

£225,000median (12m) · +9.9% yr · n=143
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£225,000143+9.9%+3.4%
Detached£435,00021-10.3%+6.5%
Semi-detached£325,00044+15.0%+34.3%
Terraced£225,00019-2.1%+13.2%
Flat£134,00059+4.3%+17.0%
This area£225,000
Gloucester£253,000
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)£36,119±£5,135 · #4,668 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£30,572
Price-to-income ?6.2×typical home ÷ net income — less 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 ?

64Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime

No recorded-crime data: the police force covering Kingsholm & Wotton 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).

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Nearby areas

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

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