Vehicle barriers in Quedgeley and Hardwicke

Quedgeley and Hardwicke is the Census 2021 built-up area E63004343 in South West. ONS counted 21,125 usual residents and a median age of 35.

The ONS size class for this settlement is Medium. Largest industry groups among employed residents: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles at 17.4%, then Human health and social work activities at 14.7%, then Manufacturing at 10.1%.

Accommodation: Whole house or bungalow: Terraced at 30.7%, then Whole house or bungalow: Semi-detached at 29.7%, then Whole house or bungalow: Detached at 29.5%, then Flat, maisonette or apartment at 9.1%. Tenure: Owned: owns with a mortgage or loan or shared ownership at 45.4%, then Owned: owns outright at 27.6%, then Private rented or lives rent free at 19.3%, then Rented: social rented at 7.7%.

The largest occupation group is Professional occupations at 16.5% of employed residents. Among residents aged 16 and over, 71.3% were recorded as employed.

Wholesale and retail is the largest industry group. Private service yards and retail-park lanes can take a rising arm.

The high street itself cannot. Terraced housing leads the stock.

Street frontages are a poor place for a boom. Private yards behind that housing are the sites worth surveying.

Counts are rounded to the nearest 5 and very small cells may have been suppressed by ONS. A barrier survey is on application and only for a private lane.

This readout does not invent a business park. Other settlements with their own barrier page in South West include Redruth, Royal Wootton Bassett, Salisbury.