Neighbourhoods in Forest of Dean
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
11 neighbourhoods · 51 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Cinderford | £689 | +2.5% | 62 | 68 |
| Lydney | £726 | +2.5% | 77 | 60 |
| Mitcheldean, Drybrook & Ruardean | £757 | +2.5% | 65 | 76 |
| Coleford | £770 | +2.5% | 39 | 60 |
| Bream, Pillowell & Yorkley | £789 | +2.5% | 40 | 75 |
| Newent | £823 | +2.5% | 32 | 51 |
| Tidenham & Woolaston | £854 | +2.5% | 40 | 89 |
| Lydbrook, Newland & St Briavels | £879 | +2.5% | 18 | 92 |
| Longhope, Westbury & Blakeney | £882 | +2.5% | 22 | 84 |
| Dymock, Hartpury & Huntley | £1,010 | +2.5% | 16 | 84 |
| Cleeve Hill, Gotherington & Apperley | £1,113 | +2.3% | 21 | 86 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Forest of Dean
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Forest of Dean. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Forest of Dean median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Forest of Dean.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Forest of Dean
Crime in Forest of Dean runs at 48% below the national average. Above median (#85 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 52.0, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Forest of Dean
100% of schools serving Forest of Dean are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Forest of Dean
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Forest of Dean
Forest of Dean has 0.27 jobs per resident locally. Bottom 10%
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Forest of Dean
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Forest of Dean?
- The median monthly rent across Forest of Dean is £820, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Forest of Dean?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Forest of Dean by estimated median rent is Cinderford at approximately £689/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Forest of Dean?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Forest of Dean is Lydney at 77/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Forest of Dean a safe area?
- Forest of Dean has an average safety score of 72/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Forest of Dean?
- The most common council tax band in Forest of Dean is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £339. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Forest of Dean.
- What is the average salary in Forest of Dean?
- The median annual resident salary in Forest of Dean is £36,589, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Forest of Dean, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Forest of Dean?
- The average property price in Forest of Dean is approximately £282,777 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Forest of Dean?
- Gross rental yield in Forest of Dean is approximately 3.3% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Forest of Dean?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 3.9 years in Forest of Dean. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Forest of Dean?
- 100% of premises in Forest of Dean are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Forest of Dean?
- 2.7% of 16-64 residents in Forest of Dean are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Forest of Dean?
- Forest of Dean contains 11 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 51 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Forest of Dean
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Forest of Dean 002B
- Forest of Dean 009C
- Forest of Dean 004A
- Forest of Dean 007B
- Forest of Dean 002A
- Forest of Dean 009E
- Forest of Dean 004G
- Forest of Dean 009A
- Forest of Dean 010E
- Forest of Dean 010C
- Forest of Dean 004B
- Forest of Dean 004E
- Forest of Dean 007F
- Forest of Dean 001C
- Forest of Dean 005C
- Forest of Dean 006C
- Forest of Dean 009F
- Forest of Dean 005A
- Forest of Dean 007C
- Forest of Dean 001D
- Forest of Dean 008A
- Forest of Dean 004F
- Forest of Dean 009D
- Forest of Dean 001B
- Forest of Dean 001A
- Forest of Dean 009B
- Forest of Dean 004D
- Forest of Dean 008B
- Forest of Dean 008D
- Forest of Dean 002C
- Forest of Dean 008E
- Forest of Dean 010A
- Forest of Dean 007A
- Forest of Dean 003E
- Forest of Dean 005D
- Forest of Dean 001E
- Forest of Dean 006B
- Forest of Dean 007D
- Forest of Dean 010B
- Forest of Dean 003A
- Forest of Dean 008C
- Forest of Dean 010D
- Forest of Dean 006A
- Forest of Dean 003C
- Forest of Dean 005B
- Forest of Dean 003B
- Forest of Dean 007E
- Forest of Dean 004C
- Forest of Dean 003D
- Tewkesbury 004C
- Forest of Dean 007G