Dursley doesn't give up much about itself at a glance — no high street parade of estate agents and coffee chains to read, just the fact of a small South West hamlet sitting inside Wiltshire, a county where a house typically clears £315,000 and crime runs at just over 62 incidents per thousand people. That's the frame you're working with here, and it's a fair one: Wiltshire itself sits comfortably rather than dramatically above the national median house price of £281,000, so this is a corner of England that reads as steady rather than sharp-elbowed.
Beyond that county-level context, there isn't a reliable picture to paint of Dursley itself — no figures on its schools, its trains, its shops, or its own crime and price data distinct from Wiltshire's. What can be said honestly is that it sits in a unitary authority that's modestly pricier and, on the crime numbers available, unremarkable by national standards. Anyone weighing up a move should treat this as a starting point for a phone call or a site visit rather than a verdict — the county tells you the neighbourhood, not the street.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
Pick another area to line them up side by side — the verdict, both Check Local Scores, and what actually separates them.