Montpellier

Montpellier's streets are Regency terraces and stucco-fronted villas carved into flats, with independent boutiques and wine bars filling the ground floors rather than chain shopfronts. It reads as Cheltenham's most polished quarter — the kind of place where the cafés don't need to shout about themselves and the crowd on the pavement skews towards professionals in their thirties and forties rather than families with pushchairs.

That character shows up squarely in the numbers: a median age of 39.5 against a national 40.4, and an income decile of 8 that puts this among the better-off pockets of the country even though the house price premium is modest — a median of £320,000 sits almost exactly level with the England average and is actually a shade below the wider Cheltenham figure it sits within. What you're paying for isn't square footage; it's the address. The property mix bears that out — flats dominate, leasehold outnumbers freehold, and a semi-detached house here fetches over double the national median for the same type. A "For Sale" board on one of these streets is far more likely to be on a smart leasehold conversion than a family semi with a garden. Schooling is thin on the ground within the suburb itself, but Cheltenham's wider draw includes The Catholic School of Saint Gregory the Great, rated Good, and reputations like Cheltenham Ladies' College and Cheltenham College sit close enough to matter to anyone weighing up the area's pull for families with older children, even if day-to-day life here is more couple and professional than school-run.