Abingdon-on-Thames
Abingdon-on-Thames is covered by postcode districts OX13 and OX14. It is mostly in the Vale of White Horse council area: 900 of its 902 postcodes. The others are in South Oxfordshire.
Every postcode in Abingdon-on-Thames, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 51
- At medium risk at worst: 35
- At low risk at worst: 115
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 701
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 902 postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames that ONS places, 51 have a home or business at high risk, 35 are at medium risk at worst, 115 are at low risk at worst and 701 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.6743, longitude -1.2819. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The postcodes at high risk
51 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 25 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX14 5ET, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 19 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX14 5PP, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 10 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX14 1PE, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX14 5RY, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX14 2AP, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Abingdon-on-Thames?
Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.8% on the 12 months before. At 565 of the 799 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 792 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 201 of its 902 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Radley, 3.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Abingdon-on-Thames?
Homes in Abingdon-on-Thames sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 376 sales, down 1.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £510,000 72 sales
- Semi-detached £375,000 100 sales
- Terraced £322,500 120 sales
- Flat or maisonette £225,000 84 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole OX14 district, Abingdon-on-Thames's main postcode district: a typical £370,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Abingdon-on-Thames: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Abingdon-on-Thames?
25 of the 902 postcodes now in use in Abingdon-on-Thames came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 24 of the 527 homes sold in Abingdon-on-Thames were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX14 district, 16%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Abingdon-on-Thames | Across the OX14 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 376 (0%) | 0 of 480 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 24 of 527 (5%) | 125 of 782 (16%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Abingdon-on-Thames?
Ofcom reports on 799 of the 902 postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames. At 565 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Abingdon-on-Thames at risk of flooding?
201 of the 902 postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 792 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Abingdon-on-Thames?
The open schools at the postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Nicolas Church of England Primary School, Abingdon300 m 399 pupils, 436 places
- Abingdon School450 m 1,270 pupils, 1,425 places
- Carswell Community Primary School700 m 210 pupils, 210 places
- Dunmore Primary School800 m 420 pupils, 460 places
- St Edmund's Catholic Primary School800 m 182 pupils, 240 places
- Kingfisher School1.0 km 113 pupils, 110 places
- Thomas Reade Primary School1.0 km 216 pupils, 210 places
- Rush Common School1.1 km 417 pupils, 448 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Abingdon-on-Thames?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames is Radley Rail Station, 3.1 km away in a straight line.
- Radley Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
- Culham Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
- Appleford Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Abingdon-on-Thames?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Abingdon Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01235 523126 250 mWalk
- Malthouse Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01235 468860 250 mWalk
- Marcham Rd Family Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01235 522602 1.5 kmCycle
- Long Furlong Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01235 522379 1.6 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Abingdon-on-Thames safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,981 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 156 September 2025
- 187 October 2025
- 161 November 2025
- 151 December 2025
- 159 January 2026
- 132 February 2026
- 167 March 2026
- 175 April 2026
- 159 May 2026
- 171 June 2026
- 191 July 2026
- 172 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 47, vehicle crime 35, bicycle theft 34, possession of weapons 17, robbery 14, theft from the person 13.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Abingdon-on-Thames?
- Councils
- Vale of White Horse (900) and South Oxfordshire (2)
- County council
- Oxfordshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Oxford West and Abingdon (899) and Didcot and Wantage (3)
- Police force area
- Thames Valley
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Abingdon-on-Thames
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Abingdon-on-Thames is in Vale of White Horse; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Vale of White Horse about council tax Council tax, on whitehorsedc.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Abingdon-on-Thames
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Abingdon-on-Thames postcodes
902 postcodes in use in Abingdon-on-Thames, by district:
Those districts are all in the OX postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Abingdon-on-Thames
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Abingdon-on-Thames's £350,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Abingdon-on-Thames
- What is it like to live in Abingdon-on-Thames?
- Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.8% on the 12 months before. At 565 of the 799 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 792 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 201 of its 902 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Radley, 3.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Abingdon-on-Thames?
- Abingdon-on-Thames is covered by postcode districts OX13 and OX14, across 902 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Abingdon-on-Thames?
- Homes in Abingdon-on-Thames sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 376 sales, down 1.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Abingdon-on-Thames?
- In Abingdon-on-Thames, primary schools at its postcodes include St Nicolas Church of England Primary School, Abingdon, Abingdon School and Carswell Community Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Abingdon School, John Mason School and Fitzharrys School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Abingdon-on-Thames have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames is Radley, 3.1 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Abingdon-on-Thames?
- Ofcom reports on 799 of the 902 postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames. At 565 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Abingdon-on-Thames at risk of flooding?
- 201 of the 902 postcodes in Abingdon-on-Thames have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 792 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Abingdon-on-Thames?
- 25 of the 902 postcodes now in use in Abingdon-on-Thames came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 24 of the 527 homes sold in Abingdon-on-Thames were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX14 district, 16%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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