St Peter's
Suburb · 1,922 residents
78Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 84 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 6 GP practices within a short walk
- 88% 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
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St Peter's
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is St Peter's a good place to live?
St Peter's scores 78/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77) and health (75).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St Peter's in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St Peter's
Terraced Victorian streets, a scatter of semis, and the kind of density that tells you this is inner Cheltenham rather than its outskirts — St Peter's has the packed-in, walk-everywhere feel of a suburb built before the car, now filled with a mix of young professionals and longer-term residents rather than one obvious type.
The numbers back up that impression: at 3,958 people per square kilometre it's noticeably denser than both the national and South West averages, and a median age of 35.1 is a good decade younger than the regional norm of 44 — this reads as a place that skews toward people starting out rather than settling down for the long haul. Housing here is dominated by terraces on freehold titles, which is the classic starter-home or first-step-up pattern, and at a median of £290,000 it sits a touch above the national median but comfortably below Cheltenham as a whole, about 9% cheaper than the town it belongs to. Schools are thin on the ground — Gardners Lane Primary and Pittville School are the names attached to the area, with Pittville's GCSE progress score sitting a little above the expected national line — so this isn't a suburb bursting with choice, more one with a couple of solid, known quantities.
Green space is respectable rather than abundant — seven pieces of it totalling 14 hectares, which works out generously per resident given the population is only just over two thousand — and full-fibre broadband reaching 84% of homes suggests plenty of people working from at least some of the week. The overall grade pattern is a consistent B-plus across affordability, connectivity, housing, transport and schools, with the environment grade nudging up to an A — the one outlier worth pausing on is safety, graded in line with the rest at B-plus but sitting against a crime count where violence and anti-social behaviour together account for over half of recorded incidents. That's not unusual for a dense inner-suburb, and the trend line is described as improving, but it's the detail that separates the postcard from the reality on the ground.