# Lydney

Town in Forest of Dean, South West.

Lydney is a town in Forest of Dean, South West. Median sale price £260,000 in 2025. About 10,641 people.

Town. Code E63004537. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Forest of Dean](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £260,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Lydney was £260,000 in 2025. Joint 512th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lydney#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 9,655** (2021). Lydney had 9,655 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 214th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lydney#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 54%** (2022). About 54% of people in Lydney live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lydney#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 79.2%** (January 2026). In Lydney, 79.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lydney#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63004537) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63004537) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 177 homes were sold in Lydney in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63004537) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Lydney had 9,655 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63004537) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Forest of Dean, where most of this town lies. The outline is Lydney.

## How Lydney compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Lydney | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £260,000 | joint 22nd cheapest | 116 towns, South West · 2025 |
| Population | 9,655 | 22nd least populated | 116 towns, South West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 54% | 35th fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 116 towns, South West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 79.2% | joint 22nd lowest | 116 towns, South West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Lydney

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Forest of Dean 009A](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean/neighbourhood/e01022226) | 1,418 | – | 5 | 64.8% |
| [Forest of Dean 009C](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean/neighbourhood/e01022254) | 2,539 | – | 3 | 87.5% |
| [Forest of Dean 009D](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean/neighbourhood/e01022255) | 2,272 | – | 8 | 95.8% |
| [Forest of Dean 009E](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean/neighbourhood/e01022256) | 1,745 | – | 3 | 71.5% |
| [Forest of Dean 009F](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean/neighbourhood/e01022257) | 1,758 | – | 8 | 63.3% |

## Your MP

- [Forest of Dean](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/forest-of-dean): Matt Bishop (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Forest of Dean](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean)

## Postcode districts covering Lydney

[GL15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/gl15)

## Middle areas in Lydney

[Lydney](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean/lydney)

## Towns near Lydney

[Cinderford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cinderford), [Cam](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cam), [Thornbury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/thornbury), [Dursley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dursley), [Chepstow](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chepstow), [Monmouth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/monmouth)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63004537
- Constituency: [Forest of Dean †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/forest-of-dean)
- Council: [Forest of Dean †](https://openindex.co.uk/forest-of-dean)
- Region: [South West](https://openindex.co.uk/south-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 3.74 km²
- People, mid-2024: 10,641*
- Neighbourhoods: 5
- Output areas: 32

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Cinderford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cinderford), [Cam](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cam), [Thornbury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/thornbury), [Dursley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dursley), [Chepstow](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chepstow), [Monmouth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/monmouth)

## Latest updates for Lydney

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63004537

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/lydney, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/lydney#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/lydney