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1,132 residents make their home in this village in Gloucestershire, South West.
Upton St Leonards’s strongest is jobs & income (A): mean household income £63,149; 1.7% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Recorded crime is low: 13.1 violent and sexual offences and 6.6 home and vehicle crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Buying the median home, at £552,500, takes 9.6 years of household income in the Stroud council area. Most journeys need a car: 9% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport.
Figures: income, ONS · claimants, DWP · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · commuting, Census 2021 · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years. With fewer than 2,500 residents, Upton St Leonards has subject grades but no overall one.
Gloucestershire Police published 29 of the 36 months; rates are per year over the months published.
The 3 things Upton St Leonards does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Upton St Leonards is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Historic England lists them inside Upton St Leonards’ built-up area.
28% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Upton St Leonards. Best known first.
CathedralGloucester Cathedral4.6 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleGloucester Castle4.4 km outside town, to the northwest
Abbey or priorySt Oswald's Priory, Gloucester4.9 km outside town, to the northwest
Abbey or priory · English HeritageGreyfriars, Gloucester4.3 km outside town, to the northwest
Abbey or priory · English HeritageBlackfriars4.5 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumMuseum of Gloucester4.2 km outside town, to the northwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Upton St Leonards.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Homes from before 1919 make up 28% of the total, above Gloucestershire’s towns (19%) and England’s towns (16%) alike. Upton St Leonards has 32 listed buildings on Historic England’s list: 3 Grade II*.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Below is its only school. Upton St Leonards Church of England Primary School’s results beat 75% of schools in England like it. Key Stage 2 results at the 12 primary schools within 3 km: just over three in five pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average).
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upton St Leonards Church of England Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 420 | A− |
12 crimes and 1 reports of anti-social behaviour: that is what police recorded inside Upton St Leonards’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026. Violence and sexual offences were half of the crimes. Also worth knowing: among the 1,541 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Upton St Leonards has less crime per resident than 69% of them.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 35% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
For 40% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. Of the commuters living in Upton St Leonards, 2% work in the town itself. Jobs per working resident: 0.9.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
There is no GP practice in Upton St Leonards: the nearest is 0.6 miles off. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 4.3% of the town. The nearest A&E to Upton St Leonards is Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, 2.7 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Upton St Leonards | Gloucestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 83% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.3% | 4.5% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 18% | 17% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them, do allow for age.
Social housing holds 5% of households, below both Gloucestershire’s towns (13%) and England’s towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 88%. Private rents average £1,041 a month across the Stroud council area.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £592,500 | 44 |
| Semi-detached | £495,000 | 5 |
| Terraced | £325,000 | 7 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
13% are under 15, below Gloucestershire’s towns (17%) and England’s towns (18%) alike. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 6.9% of the population. The age that splits Upton St Leonards in two is 55.5. Among adults, 39% have a degree.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Upton St Leonards | Gloucestershire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 6.9% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 26% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 25% |
| 65+ | 36% | 20% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 15% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.5% | 5.8% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 39% | 34% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Gloucestershire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upton St Leonards | 1,132 | — | — | C | A− | B+ |
| Brockworth | 12,007 | 1.6 | B | A− | C− | C |
| Gloucester | 118,562 | 1.8 | C− | C+ | D | C− |
| Painswick | 1,833 | 3.3 | — | C+ | B+ | A+ |
| Churchdown | 13,480 | 3.7 | A− | B+ | B− | B+ |
| Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 21,125 | 3.7 | B | C+ | C+ | B− |
| Longford | 2,536 | 3.7 | A− | A | B | B |
| Shurdington | 1,888 | 4.1 | — | B | B+ | B− |
Painswick and Shurdington have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
That is 11.6 times the typical UK town for its size.
Homes cost more than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £552,500, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £325,000, semi-detached houses £495,000 and detached houses £592,500.
GCSE results trail 81% of towns in England, and primary results trail 52% (Department for Education, Attainment 8 and Key Stage 2). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by Gloucestershire council.
Village in Gloucestershire, England
Upton St Leonards is a built-up area of 1,132 people, in the Stroud council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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