Stroud house prices: £335,000 median, £625k Woodchester

Stroud district’s average house price was £348,815 in May 2026. The middle home sold in Stroud town itself over the last twelve months cost £320,000, and the middle home sold in Woodchester, three miles up the valley, cost £625,000. The district has one of the widest internal price gaps in Gloucestershire, and the town that gives it its name sits on the cheap side of it.

Two official figures are used on this page and they answer different questions. The £348,815 is the UK House Price Index for the whole district, a modelled monthly average that is the right thing to watch for direction of travel. The town and village numbers are medians of actual completed sales taken from the HM Land Registry Price Paid record for the twelve months to 30 June 2026, with every postcode matched to its parish so that a Cotswold or South Gloucestershire address in a shared postcode does not get counted as Stroud. On that basis 1,301 homes changed hands in the district and the middle one cost £335,000.

What each town and village actually paid

Stroud, Cam, Stonehouse, Dursley and Cainscross are five of the six busiest housing markets in the district and all five sit at or below the district median. Between them they recorded 571 sales, 44% of everything the Land Registry logged in Stroud district over the year. Woodchester, Minchinhampton and Painswick recorded 107 between them, at roughly twice the price.

That is the shape of the place. The mill towns in the valley bottoms and the Vale towns towards the Severn sell the volume; the commons-top villages a couple of miles above them sell the money. A district average sits in the gap, and very few houses are actually priced there.

Nailsworth is the number most people query. At £280,000 it reads far cheaper than its reputation, and the reason is the mix rather than the market: of its 67 recorded sales, 23 were flats or terraces around the town centre and only 15 were detached houses. Minchinhampton, on the common directly above it, is £282,500 dearer.

Stroud district by property type

The detached house does the work here. At £485,000 the middle one costs £160,000 more than the middle semi and almost three times the middle flat, and detached houses were 35% of everything sold. That ratio is most of the village and town gap above, because Woodchester and Minchinhampton sell detached houses and Cainscross and Dursley sell semis and terraces.

On the House Price Index, which measures the district rather than individual sales, every type except flats was rising in the year to May 2026: detached homes averaged £551,538, up 4.1%, semis £335,445, up 5.0%, terraces £281,143, up 3.9% and flats £163,287, down 0.1%. Semi-detached houses, the district’s second biggest category by volume, were its fastest riser.

Inside Stroud town

Stroud parish recorded 183 sales, more than anywhere else in the district. Split by type, the town is cheaper than the district in every category:

The town’s semis, terraces and flats all sell slightly above the district figure for their type. Only its detached houses sell below, by £46,250. In other words Stroud town is not cheap because its houses are cheap; it is cheap because it sells proportionally more small ones. A third of its sales were flats and terraces.

At ward level the pattern is sharper still. Amberley and Woodchester had a median of £672,500 from 30 sales and Painswick and Upton £534,000 from 50, while Stroud Central recorded £285,000 from 36 sales and Cainscross £271,250 from 80. The two dearest wards and the two busiest cheap ones are within four miles of each other.

The extremes, and where to check your own street

The dearest recorded sale in the district over the year was a detached house in the GL6 9BB postcode at Minchinhampton, at £3,100,000 — one of five sales above £2m, three of them in Minchinhampton parish and one apiece in Painswick and Woodchester. At the other end, three flats in the GL5 1DS postcode in central Stroud sold at £47,000, £70,000 and £87,000, and a new flat at Great Oldbury near Stonehouse went for £52,500.

By postcode sector, GL5 5 (Woodchester, Amberley and the Minchinhampton side of the valley) had a median of £538,500 from 54 sales, and GL6 6 (Painswick) £509,000 from 58. The cheapest sectors were GL11 4 (Dursley) at £277,750 from 82 sales and GL10 2 (Stonehouse) at £285,000 from 73.

You can check any address yourself, free, on the HM Land Registry price paid search.

Which way the market is going

Stroud is the second dearest district in Gloucestershire after Cotswold, and it went up 3.9% in the year to May 2026 against 2.3% for England and 1.7% for the South West as a whole. On the index, where 2023 is set at 100, Stroud reads 106.0 and the South West reads 97.9: the district is 6% above its 2023 level while the region is still below it. The month of May on its own was down 0.2%, so the annual figure is the story rather than a market climbing right now.

Gloucester, twenty minutes down the A419 and the M5, averages £106,718 less than Stroud. That gap is why Stroud’s affordability problem is a local one rather than a Gloucestershire one.

Buyers, sellers and the step up

The same index splits by buyer. A first-time buyer in Stroud district paid an average of £285,819 in May 2026. Somebody selling one home here to buy another paid £403,599. That step of £117,780 is the district’s affordability problem in one number, and it maps onto the parish table almost exactly: it is roughly the distance from a Dursley or Cainscross median to a Rodborough or Chalford one.

If you are buying in Stroud town, the cheapest routes in are flats and terraces in Stroud Central and Cainscross, where the ward medians are £285,000 and £271,250. Check what is proposed nearby on our Stroud planning page first: the district cannot currently demonstrate a five-year housing land supply, which makes speculative applications harder for the council to refuse.

If you are buying in the district but not in Stroud, Cam is within £1,000 of the Stroud median and Stonehouse and Dursley are £40,000 below it, all three with their own stations or fast access to the M5. What the commute costs from each is on Stroud trains to London.

If you are selling, you are selling into a market that rose faster than England over the last year, having already recovered further past its 2023 level than the region around it.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average house price in Stroud?

The average across Stroud district was £348,815 in May 2026 on the UK House Price Index. The middle completed sale in Stroud town itself was £320,000 over the twelve months to 30 June 2026, from 183 recorded sales (HM Land Registry Price Paid).

Are house prices in Stroud rising or falling?

Rising. Prices were up 3.9% in the year to May 2026 and down 0.2% in the month. That beat England as a whole (up 2.3%) and the South West (up 1.7%), and matched neighbouring Cotswold.

Where is the most expensive place to buy near Stroud?

Of the parishes with enough sales to measure, Woodchester was dearest at a median of £625,000 from 17 sales, followed by Minchinhampton at £562,500 and Painswick at £509,000. At ward level Amberley and Woodchester reads £672,500 against Cainscross’s £271,250.

Why is Nailsworth cheaper than Minchinhampton?

Because of what sells there, not because the houses are worse. Of Nailsworth’s 67 recorded sales, 23 were flats or terraces and only 15 were detached, so its median of £280,000 describes a different kind of home from Minchinhampton’s £562,500.

How much is a flat in Stroud?

The median flat or maisonette across the district sold for £170,000 over the twelve months, and £176,225 in Stroud parish. On the House Price Index the district flat average was £163,287 in May 2026, down 0.1% over the year, the only property type that did not rise.

What does a first-time buyer pay in Stroud district?

An average of £285,819 in May 2026, against £403,599 for somebody moving from one home to another. Both figures are from the UK House Price Index.

Sources

• UK House Price Index, Stroud (ONS / HM Land Registry) for the district average, property-type and buyer-type figures and the annual and monthly changes.
• Land Registry UK HPI open data, Stroud, May 2026 and the matching records for Cotswold, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, the South West and England for the comparison table.
• HM Land Registry Price Paid linked data for the parish, ward, property-type, sector and extreme figures, being every completed residential sale recorded in the GL5, GL6, GL10, GL11, GL12 and GL13 postcode districts between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, with each postcode matched to its parish, ward and council area through the postcodes.io lookup so that only Stroud district sales are counted.
• HM Land Registry price paid search to check any individual address.

Land Registry figures are provisional and are revised as more sales complete; the index runs two to three months behind, and the most recent months of price paid data are under-counted because sales take time to register. Confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision. What is being built near you is on Stroud planning news; what the commute costs is on Stroud trains to London.