Professional firms, builders and farms make up the core of Stroud's 5,810 registered businesses. We match that mix with patrols for rural land, guards for production sites and alarm response for offices.
Trusted Protection in Stroud
Stroud's commercial base is broader than most. Professional services lead with 1,000 firms, construction has 840 and agriculture 445, and both farming and manufacturing sit above their national shares. That spread means one Stroud client may need a guard at a factory gate while another wants solar CCTV towers watching a barn. Our network includes 40 security workers living within 10 miles, and we plan cover around the premises rather than a standard package.
Stroud Business Profile
Forty security workers in our network live within 10 miles of Stroud. Twenty of them carry a current SIA licence and can be booked, and 5 drive their own car, which suits mobile patrol work. All are BS 7858 vetted and paid through PAYE, so static posts and patrol routes across outlying sites can be staffed from people who already live nearby.
Manufacturing, at 6.1% of firms against 4.6% across Great Britain, typically needs access control at the gate, guarding during shift changes and alarm response overnight. Agriculture, at 7.7%, raises different issues: open yards, machinery and fuel stores where rural patrols and solar camera towers do the work. With 7 construction sites mapped within 5km, contractors may also want temporary towers on plant and materials.
Lansdown Hall, the SVA arts centre and the Vue cinema all sit inside a 5km radius of the town. Martyn's Law is due to cover any venue where 200 or more people gather from 2027, and our event security can support those occasions. What Martyn's Law means for venues.
Sources: Go Security officer network (counts rounded to the nearest 5); ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis; place data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Updated October 2026.
Security Requirements in Stroud
Two hospitals, the Stroud and Stonehouse railway stations and trading sites such as Salmon Springs and CCT Cheapside all lie within 5km of Stroud, along with 42 pubs, bars and nightclubs. Rural crime is one of the local police priorities, so the farmland beyond the town needs as much attention as the estates.
Services in Stroud
Pick from the services below for a Stroud factory, farm, office, venue or building site.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk does not show figures for Stroud because Gloucestershire Constabulary is not publishing complete data there.
Without that local breakdown, it is harder to judge risk from statistics alone. A better guide is a look at the site itself. Our free on-site security audit, worth £250, works through a 25-point checklist covering boundaries, lighting, access, alarms and storage, and gives you a written set of priorities for your Stroud premises.
Local Policing
Gloucestershire Constabulary's Stroud Urban team has set three priorities: supporting businesses against retail crime, cutting anti-social behaviour including street drinking and criminal damage, and tackling rural crime.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Stroud.
Areas We Cover Near Stroud
Stonehouse, Painswick and Minchinhampton are each 3 miles from Stroud, and Dursley is 7 miles away. Other covered towns are listed below.
Postcodes We Cover in Stroud
The 3 postcode districts nearest central Stroud, covering parts of Stroud and Cotswold.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Stroud Security FAQs
Yes. Forty security workers in our network are registered within 10 miles; 20 hold a current SIA licence and can be booked for shifts, and 5 have a car for mobile patrols. Every one is vetted to BS 7858.
Agriculture makes up 7.7% of Stroud businesses, compared with 4.5% nationally, and the police list rural crime as a priority. We offer rural mobile patrols, solar CCTV towers and monitored alarms for yards, barns and equipment.
Manufacturing accounts for 6.1% of local firms. For production sites we provide static guarding, access control at gates and alarm response, with every patrol and check recorded through GPS book-on and digital reports.
Gloucestershire Constabulary is not publishing complete data to Police.uk, so we cannot show local totals for Stroud. Our free security audit, worth £250, assesses the risks at your own premises instead.
The Stroud Urban team says retail crime will be taken seriously and repeat offenders prosecuted. A uniformed guard and clear incident reports support that process, and CCTV monitoring adds cover outside opening hours.
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