GL5 broadband and area guide

Gigabit reaches 66.4%, the lowest in the GL batch. The superfast band is correspondingly generous at 29.3%, with nearly one in three postcodes in the 30 to 300 Mbps range. This skew towards superfast-but-not-ultrafast is characteristic of semi-rural areas where cable infrastructure is selective, concentrated in accessible zones and leaving dispersed valley properties on older copper. Only 0.4% fall below 10 Mbps, so the floor is solid across 1,090 postcodes. Stroud town likely benefits from cable investment whilst outlying Cotswold valleys rely on copper delivering adequate speeds for working from home and streaming. The distribution across Stroud reflects the geography's role in infrastructure prioritisation: operators invest heavily in nucleated towns first. No full fibre data is recorded, indicating cable will remain the ultrafast delivery mechanism.

Spanning 1,090 postcodes, GL5 is Stroud's primary code and likely covers the market town plus surrounding Cotswold valleys. The high superfast percentage ensures most households, even if not gigabit-eligible, can run modern workloads.