Cinderford
TownTown in Forest of Dean, South West.
Cinderford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cinderford 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 100% of people in Cinderford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cinderford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Cinderford?
Cinderford had 8,778 usual residents at the census.
Cinderford is the 132nd least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Cinderford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cinderford has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cinderford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest of Dean 004A | 2,060 | No figure | 5 | 82.6% |
| Forest of Dean 004B | 1,494 | No figure | 3 | 87.6% |
| Forest of Dean 004C | 1,551 | No figure | 2 | 75.4% |
| Forest of Dean 004D | 1,578 | No figure | 6 | 90.7% |
| Forest of Dean 004E | 2,091 | No figure | 4 | 64.5% |
Your MP
- Matt BishopLabourMP for Forest of Dean
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 Cinderford1
Middle areas in Cinderford1
Towns near Cinderford6
Cinderford in brief
Cinderford is a town in Forest of Dean, South West.
About 9,035 people lived in Cinderford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £195,000 in 2025 across 114 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Cinderford was £195,000 in 2025.
Cinderford had 8,778 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Cinderford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cinderford, 78.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.