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Painswick, Bisley & Eastcombe

Stroud · South West · population 6,769 · 4 LSOAs

Postcode GL4 · GL6 · GL7

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

76Area Score / 100 ?
  • #1,671 of 6,856 in England
  • #167 of 710 in South West
  • #6 of 15 in Stroud
  • Less deprived (top 30%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents6,675
Median age (est.)55
Density88per km²
No qualifications10%
Degree or above53%
No car or van8%

Age

0–14 13%15–24 8%25–44 15%45–64 31%65+ 33%

Tenure

Own outright: 54%Mortgage/shared: 27%Social rent: 6%Private rent: 13%
Own outright 54%Mortgage/shared 27%Social rent 6%Private rent 13%

Households

One person: 27%Couple, no children: 20%Couple with children: 24%Lone parent: 5%Other: 24%
One person 27%Couple, no children 20%Couple with children 24%Lone parent 5%Other 24%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 26% · Managers & directors 23% · Associate professional 15%

All occupation groups
Professional26%
Managers & directors23%
Associate professional15%
Skilled trades10%
Administrative9%
Caring & leisure6%
Elementary5%
Sales & customer service4%
Process & plant2%

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 54% · No religion 38% · 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

Painswick, Bisley & Eastcombe is in the less-deprived top third of England, ranked #1,671 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #6 of 15 in Stroud. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Income (95) but weak on Living environment (6). Typical homes here sold for about £500,000 over the past year, down 13% across five years (from 91 sales), 52% above the wider Stroud median of £330,000. Typical household take-home income is around £47,996 a year, in the top third of England.

Themed scores ?

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

Income 95 · #341
Employment 92 · #553
Education 94 · #444
Health 93 · #492
Crime 92 · #574
Housing & access 15 · #5,797
Living environment 6 · #6,428

House prices ?

£500,000median (12m) · -12.3% yr · n=91
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£500,00091-12.3%-13.0%
Detached£690,00055-11.5%-1.4%
Semi-detached£385,00012-10.5%+4.1%
Terraced£335,00016-14.5%+18.6%
Flat£250,0008-16.7%—
This area£500,000
Stroud£330,000
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)£47,996±£6,877 · #1,448 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£41,054
Price-to-income ?10.4×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 ?

32Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime

No recorded-crime data: the police force covering Painswick, Bisley & Eastcombe 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.

Stroud Town Chalford & Bussage Rodborough & Thrupp Ebley & Randwick Abbeymead & Abbeydale (Gloucester) Brockworth & Coopers Edge (Tewkesbury)

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