Cam gets the everyday things right and keeps the drama to a minimum, which is most of what a family buyer wants. Green space starts a few minutes from the front door. Crime runs below the district's rate. A three-bed with a garden still costs a sum a household on two ordinary salaries can find. About three in ten work from home and most of the rest drive, so the commute is mostly a choice between the back bedroom and the roundabout.
The buyer Cam is built for wants a house, a garden and a car on the drive, and doesn't need a café scene to feel at home. In the Land Registry's twelve months to May 2026, the typical sale went through at about £311,000, and the type of house moves that figure more than the street does. The 43 detached sales had a median of £420,000, the 39 semis about £295,000, and the 20 terraces £265,000. Only eight flats sold, at a median of about £136,000. That is the whole flat market for a year, so the first-time buyer hunting a starter flat has mostly come to the wrong place. On the council-tax list, band C is the most common band, and a third of homes sit in bands A and B.
Renting is a minority habit here. Across the Stroud district as a whole, the typical private rent was about £1,040 a month in April 2026. That is a figure for the whole council area, because nothing finer exists for Cam itself.
The housing is post-war family stock, and plenty of it. Every dwelling on the council-tax valuation list counts: 30% are detached, 28% semi-detached, 17% bungalows, 15% terraced and 8% flats, and only 16% were built before 1930. A bungalow share like that is a town planning for knees in their seventies. Energy ratings are middling. Just over half of certificated homes reach band C or better, and 13% are rated E or worse. About three-quarters of homes run on mains gas, and 9% rely on electric-only heating.
The people match the houses. About 73% of households own their home, the median age is 49, and the Office for National Statistics models gross household income at about £56,000 a year before tax, averaged across the area, for the financial year to March 2023. It is a place of owners who extended once and plan to stay put.
Flood risk is the weakest part of the picture, and it comes from rain on particular streets more than from a river. About 7% of postcodes carry a high rating on at least one flood indicator, surface water included. In the Environment Agency's river-and-sea flood zones the share is under 1% of postcodes. The Agency has two recorded floods on file. The latest was in July 1968, when the main river overtopped its channel. The 1968 river gets the history; the surface-water map gets the attention.
On safety, Gloucestershire Constabulary's published figures put Cam at about 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people in the year to May 2026. That is roughly 19% below the Stroud district average of about 46.
Heritage barely gets in the way. The wider area has 60 listed buildings: one Grade I, six Grade II* and 53 Grade II. It also includes one conservation area, Stinchcombe. The typical 1960s semi is nobody's heritage asset, so an extension comes down to ordinary planning permission and how well you get on with the neighbours.
Connectivity runs on the car and the router. Cam & Dursley station is on the doorstep, yet fewer than one commuter in a hundred uses the train, while 57% drive. There are 83 bus stops, with about nine weekday departures per stop on average. Gigabit broadband reaches 86% of premises and superfast 98%. The railway carries almost nobody to work; the fibre carries three in ten.
The surroundings are where Cam does best. The nearest green space is about 160 metres from the average home, there are about 16 within a kilometre, and water is about 480 metres away. The Cotswold Way runs close by, and a sliver of the Cotswolds' protected landscape falls inside the boundary. This page also covers Frampton on Severn and Slimbridge, so the same open country stretches beyond Cam's own streets. For anyone whose idea of a weekend is a field and a dog, the house price includes a lot of countryside.
Cam is above average, and for a clear reason. It is right for families and home-working couples who want a proper house, open country a short walk away and a crime rate under the district's. Before choosing a street, they should know that the real flood question here is surface water. Anyone who wants a flat, a train commute or an evening out on foot should look elsewhere. Everyone else gets a garden, a hill and a short walk to the fields.