Barnwood
Suburb · 3,805 residents
64Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 65 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 93% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Barnwood
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Barnwood a good place to live?
Barnwood scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79) and environment (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Barnwood in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Barnwood
Barnwood reads as a settled, brick-and-privet suburb on the edge of Gloucester — the kind of place where semis and flats sit close together on quiet through-roads rather than one dominating the other. It's dense for its size, more tightly packed than the national average, but it doesn't feel like a new-build estate; there's no new-build to speak of here at all, which tells you most of what's on the market has been lived in for a while.
For house-hunting purposes, the picture is straightforward: flats are the most commonly sold property, freehold is the norm even so, and at a median price a little under £215,000 you're buying well below both the regional and national medians — and a touch cheaper than Gloucester itself, the town it belongs to. That gap widens if you look at flats specifically, which sell for notably less here than the national flat price, while semi-detached houses actually fetch more locally than the national semi-detached figure. Schools cluster close together: Barnwood Church of England Primary carries a Good rating, and with Dinglewell Infant and Junior Schools and St Peter's Catholic Primary also in the mix, families have real choice within a small area, even if the secondary, Barnwood Park School, doesn't carry a published Ofsted grade in this data. With a median age a year or so above the national figure and a population that isn't especially transient, this reads as a place people settle into rather than pass through.