Tewkesbury.net - Facts and Figures

ABOUT TEWKESBURY.NET
This site is the definitive Internet resource for anyone seeking information on the town of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, U.K.
You can source information on many aspects of Tewkesbury life, its community organisations, its businesses and the services & products that they offer.
The website accepts the submission of information for the Tewkesbury geographical areas described by the following UK post codes:
  GL20 5--
  GL20 6--
  GL20 7--
  GL20 8--
  GL19 4--

Masses of information about Tewkesbury Businesses, Shops, Local Organisations& Tourism.
Tewkesbury News from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. 2006. 2007.

Facts & Figures Area
Here you will find various facts and figures relative to businesses within Tewkesbury. Click on an item below to gain further information.

Business Information
Population Data
Useful Contacts
Map

Business Information
The area of Tewkesbury, which is predominantly rural in character, offers a diverse range of industrial and commercial activities. Situated in the Severn Vale, it has a well-developed strategic road and rail network with the dominant feature, the M5 Motorway (Junctions 9,10,11,11a) running north/south providing good links to Birmingham, Bristol, the West Country and South Wales. Recent major upgrading of the A417/A419 provides a dual carriageway link between the south of the Borough and the M4, giving easy access to London and the South East.

A skilled workforce, excellent labour relations and the proximity to markets both national and local have attracted many new firms to the area. Tewkesbury is considered both economically and environmentally, an attractive, well located, secure place to be.

While the national unemployment rate is 4.4% and the County has an unemployment rate of 2.9%, the Borough of Tewkesbury has an unemployment rate of 2.2%, one of the lowest in the county (Source: Gloucestershire Labour Market Information Unit, April 1999).

The area has so much to offer new industries - several new "high-tech" estates as well as many older established industrial areas and rural employment centres with close proximity to major road and rail routes, set in pleasant surroundings of scarp and vale.

The majority of companies are, however, SME's (Small to Medium sized Enterprises) employing up to 200 people, producing goods as diverse as beer, cheese, paper and amusement arcade machines, although precision engineering, printing and electronics predominate. There are also many free standing companies not located on established estates and similarly businesses in converted farm buildings which have proved a positive use for redundant rural facility as well as contributing to the local rural economy.

Population Data
These figures are based on the mid 1998 estimates for the Tewkesbury.net catchment area, which is defined as the following postal code sectors:
GL20 5XX, GL20 6XX, GL20 7XX, GL20 8XX, and GL19 4XX.