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 September 2026. 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 9 primary schools, 4 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 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.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Abingdon-on-Thames?

Homes in Abingdon-on-Thames sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 367 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £351,500 from 532 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £520,000 75 sales
• Semi-detached £372,500 97 sales
• Terraced £335,000 114 sales
• Flat or maisonette £215,000 81 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 October 2026.

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 September 2025, 23 of the 532 homes sold in Abingdon-on-Thames were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX14 district, 14%.

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 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.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 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.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

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

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

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

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 each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.