Cam
TownTown in Stroud, South West.
Cam is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cam add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 79% of people in Cam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cam compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Cam?
Cam had 7,730 usual residents at the census.
Cam is the joint 33rd least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Cam, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cam has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cam
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud 011A | 1,534 | No figure | 9 | 98.0% |
| Stroud 011B | 1,480 | No figure | 10 | 81.3% |
| Stroud 011C | 1,199 | No figure | 5 | 84.1% |
| Stroud 011D | 1,129 | No figure | 8 | 85.1% |
| Stroud 011E | 2,043 | No figure | 8 | 94.6% |
| Stroud 011F | 1,136 | No figure | 3 | 92.7% |
Your MP
- Dr Simon OpherLabourMP for Stroud
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Cam1
Middle areas in Cam1
Towns near Cam6
Cam in brief
Cam is a town in Stroud, South West.
About 8,546 people lived in Cam in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 182 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Cam was £310,000 in 2025.
Cam had 7,730 usual residents at the census.
About 79% of people in Cam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cam, 91.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.