Lydney
TownTown in Forest of Dean, South West.
Lydney is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lydney 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 54% of people in Lydney live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lydney compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Lydney?
Lydney had 9,655 usual residents at the census.
Lydney is the 214th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Lydney, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lydney has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Lydney
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest of Dean 009A | 1,418 | No figure | 5 | 64.8% |
| Forest of Dean 009C | 2,539 | No figure | 3 | 87.5% |
| Forest of Dean 009D | 2,272 | No figure | 8 | 95.8% |
| Forest of Dean 009E | 1,745 | No figure | 3 | 71.5% |
| Forest of Dean 009F | 1,758 | No figure | 8 | 63.3% |
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 Lydney1
Middle areas in Lydney1
Towns near Lydney6
Lydney in brief
Lydney is a town in Forest of Dean, South West.
About 10,641 people lived in Lydney in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 177 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Lydney was £260,000 in 2025.
Lydney had 9,655 usual residents at the census.
About 54% of people in Lydney live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lydney, 79.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.