Innsworth lets you knock through, build out and loft-convert with almost nothing historic in the way, and then asks you to accept a crime rate the rest of its borough doesn't carry. Two listed buildings. No conservation area. Crime about a quarter above the local average. For a family that wants room to grow, that deal is worth taking, with the doors locked.
Historic England lists two buildings in Innsworth, both Grade II, and there are no conservation areas and no scheduled monuments inside the area. That leaves ordinary planning permission and nothing on top of it. Most of the place went up quickly after the Second World War, a good share of it prefabricated or poured as "no fines" concrete, and many of those houses have since had the original concrete stripped off and been refaced in brick. Down the road, Gloucester's Cathedral Precincts and Westgate Street conservation areas have opinions about sash windows. In Innsworth, the houses that started life as a temporary fix are exactly the ones nobody minds you changing.
Safety is the weak side. Police.uk records for the year to May 2026 put crime at about 53 per 1,000 residents, roughly 25% above the Tewkesbury borough average. Violence and sexual offences made up 47% of recorded crime here, against 35% across England and Wales, though that heading is broad and includes common assault where nobody was hurt. Anti-social behaviour was 21%, against 16% nationally. Across the whole force area, Gloucestershire Constabulary charged someone in about 9% of cases over the same twelve months, against 12% nationally, which puts it 39th of 42 forces. In any other league table that is a relegation fight.
The flood headline needs reading carefully. About 32% of postcodes show a high reading on at least one flood indicator including surface water. In the Environment Agency's river-and-sea flood zones, no postcodes fall in zone 3 and under 1% in zone 2, and its property count finds no homes at high or medium risk from rivers or the sea. The water to think about falls from the sky and runs along the gutters, and surface water pays no attention to which bird a road is named after.
The Land Registry's twelve months to May 2026 recorded 130 sales at a typical price of about £290,000. Detached houses went for about £420,000, semis about £292,000, terraces about £231,000, and the nine flats about £160,000. Band C is the most common council tax band, and about 40% of homes are in bands A or B. The semi price and the typical price are practically the same number, which is what happens when the semi is the place.
Renting means working from the Tewkesbury borough figure, about £990 a month for a typical private rent as of April 2026, an average for the whole borough and its villages.
Counting every dwelling on the council-tax list, 42% are semi-detached, 20% terraced, 18% detached, 10% bungalows and about one in ten flats, with only about 5% built before 1930. About half of homes have three bedrooms. Some 81% heat with mains gas and about 8% rely on electric heating alone. Energy certificates put 60% of rated homes at band C or better, a respectable result for houses that were originally expected to be gone by now.
About 64% of households own their home and the typical resident is 40. Gross household income, modelled by the Office for National Statistics across the two neighbourhood areas, averaged about £59,000 in the financial year to March 2023. The village pub, the Bullfinch, closed in 2004 and its site went to the Severn Vale Housing Society for social housing. Given the choice between a bar and more front doors, Innsworth picked front doors.
At the 2021 Census about 53% of working residents drove to work, 28% worked from home, 4% took the bus and the train barely registered. There are 47 bus stops averaging about 29 weekday departures each, and every one has a weekend service. Gloucester Rail Station is the nearest station. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling put Gloucester town centre about 16 minutes away by car and 33 by public transport, and the bus timings will have aged faster than the drive. Gigabit broadband reaches about 93% of premises, which is why working from the kitchen table outnumbers the bus several times over.
Innsworth Infant School and Innsworth Junior School are the local starting points, with a modelled primary walk of about seven minutes. The six primary schools across the surrounding postal districts averaged a Key Stage 2 maths score of about 104, and the two secondaries recorded an Attainment 8 score of about 50. Across Gloucestershire, Ofsted has graded 136 of 156 settings good or outstanding. That figure covers the whole county, and the seven-minute walk tells a parent more than the county total does.
The nearest green space is about 160 metres from the typical front door, with around 17 inside a kilometre, and water is about 400 metres away. Down Hatherley, the parish towards Cheltenham that this page also covers, adds the more rural end. Nobody here has to drive anywhere to walk the dog.
Innsworth is right for a family that wants three bedrooms, a short run into Gloucester, and planning paperwork of the ordinary kind. Anyone who ranks a low crime rate first, or needs a train at the end of the road, should look elsewhere.
Innsworth earns a place on the shortlist for anyone planning to extend, because there is almost nothing protected between you and the builder. Set some of the extension budget aside for a decent lock.