Dursley
TownTown in Stroud, South West.
Dursley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dursley 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 Dursley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dursley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Dursley?
Dursley had 7,935 usual residents at the census.
Dursley is the 53rd least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Dursley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dursley has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dursley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud 014A | 2,442 | No figure | 9 | 83.2% |
| Stroud 014B | 1,688 | No figure | 6 | 96.8% |
| Stroud 014C | 2,065 | No figure | 5 | 73.1% |
| Stroud 014D | 1,268 | No figure | 3 | 88.3% |
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 Dursley1
Middle areas in Dursley1
Towns near Dursley6
Dursley in brief
Dursley is a town in Stroud, South West.
About 8,173 people lived in Dursley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £277,500 in 2025 across 153 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Dursley was £277,500 in 2025.
Dursley had 7,935 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Dursley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dursley, 83.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.