Official statistics · 15 of 16 measures compare directly
Buckinghamshire and Stroud compared
Every measure Civometry publishes for both areas, side by side. Each figure is its publisher’s own for the period named beside it, and the difference between the two is stated in the middle. Neither area is called better: which direction counts as better depends on what you are asking, and the page does not decide that for you. Where the two figures are not comparable — a different period, or nothing published for one side — the row says so instead of showing a difference.
Buckinghamshire
E06000060 · Thames Valley Police
Stroud
E07000082 · Gloucestershire Constabulary
Getting better or worse
−4
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
2 more in Stroud
−2
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
Population
584,296
ONS: Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series
457,878 more in Buckinghamshire
126,418
ONS: Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series
Median annual pay, full-time employees
£43,290
ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence
£4,682 more in Buckinghamshire
£38,608
ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence
Average house price
£490,508
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
£134,555 more in Buckinghamshire
£355,953
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
All private rents
£1,474
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
£434 more in Buckinghamshire
£1,040
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
All claimants
3.0%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
0.8 percentage points higher in Buckinghamshire
2.2%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
Net international migration
+969
ONS: Components of population change by local authority (ONS mid-year estimates, sheet MYE3)
1,029 more in Buckinghamshire
−60
ONS: Components of population change by local authority (ONS mid-year estimates, sheet MYE3)
Band D council tax
£2,527
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
£35 more in Buckinghamshire
£2,491
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
IMD average score
11.9
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
0.7 more in Stroud
12.6
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
Income-deprived residents
14.0%
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
0.5 percentage points higher in Buckinghamshire
13.5%
MHCLG: English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries
Recorded crime
61.8
Home Office: data.police.uk street-level crime, cumulative monthly archive
No published figure for Stroud.
No published figure
Home Office: data.police.uk street-level crime, cumulative monthly archive
House price to pay ratio
11.3 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
2.1 years more in Buckinghamshire
9.2 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
Annual rent as a share of pay
40.9%
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
8.6 percentage points higher in Buckinghamshire
32.3%
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
Band D council tax as a share of pay
5.84%
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
0.61 percentage points higher in Stroud
6.45%
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
Mean domestic gas use per meter
14,050
DESNZ: Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics
2,815 more in Buckinghamshire
11,235
DESNZ: Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics
Mean domestic electricity use per meter
4,143
DESNZ: Regional and local authority electricity consumption statistics
386 more in Buckinghamshire
3,756
DESNZ: Regional and local authority electricity consumption statistics
In one sentence
In the latest published figures, population was 584,296 in Buckinghamshire and 126,418 in Stroud (mid-2025); median annual pay, full-time employees was £43,290 in Buckinghamshire and £38,608 in Stroud (2025); and average house price was £490,508 in Buckinghamshire and £355,953 in Stroud (June 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
In the latest published figures, population was 584,296 in Buckinghamshire and 126,418 in Stroud (mid-2025); median annual pay, full-time employees was £43,290 in Buckinghamshire and £38,608 in Stroud (2025); and average house price was £490,508 in Buckinghamshire and £355,953 in Stroud (June 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
Recorded crime by category
A category-by-category crime comparison needs both areas to have a full, current twelve months in the data.police.uk archive. One of them does not, so it is not shown; the crime rate above, where published, still comes from that archive.
What this comparison rests on
Two figures are only subtracted when they are the same measure over the same period. Populations differ (584,296 and 126,418 residents on the latest estimates used here), so counts are shown alongside rates rather than instead of them. Nothing on this page is weighted, indexed or scored: every difference is one published number minus another, and the rows that cannot be compared say why.