Oxford
Oxford is covered by postcode districts OX1, OX2, OX3 and OX4. It is mostly in the Oxford council area: 3,617 of its 3,852 postcodes. The others are in Vale of White Horse, South Oxfordshire and Cherwell.
Every postcode in Oxford, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 222
- At medium risk at worst: 51
- At low risk at worst: 184
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 3,395
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 3,852 postcodes in Oxford that ONS places, 222 have a home or business at high risk, 51 are at medium risk at worst, 184 are at low risk at worst and 3,395 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 51.7500, longitude -1.2374. 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
222 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
- 65 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX2 0BY, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 53 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX1 4RR, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 38 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX1 4LB, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 15 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX1 1HF, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX2 0JB, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OX4 6AT, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Oxford?
Homes sold for a typical £450,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 2,030 of the 3,552 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3,753 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 457 of its 3,852 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Oxford, 2.3 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 Oxford?
Homes in Oxford sold for a typical £450,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,177 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £862,556 124 sales
- Semi-detached £475,000 376 sales
- Terraced £452,500 398 sales
- Flat or maisonette £330,000 279 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole OX4 district, Oxford's main postcode district: a typical £410,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Oxford: 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 Oxford?
216 of the 3,852 postcodes now in use in Oxford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 10 of the 1,483 homes sold in Oxford were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX4 district, 0%.
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 Oxford | Across the OX4 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 1 of 1,177 (Under 1%) | 0 of 417 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 10 of 1,483 (Under 1%) | 0 of 530 (0%) |
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 Oxford?
Ofcom reports on 3,552 of the 3,852 postcodes in Oxford. At 2,030 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 Oxford at risk of flooding?
457 of the 3,852 postcodes in Oxford 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 3,753 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 Oxford?
The open schools at the postcodes in Oxford (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
- East Oxford Primary School150 m 278 pupils, 315 places
- Magdalen College School500 m 938 pupils, 1,085 places
- St Michael's CofE Primary School, Oxford City1.0 km 189 pupils, 210 places
- St Mary and St John Church of England Primary School1.1 km 399 pupils, 420 places
- New College School1.3 km 146 pupils, 160 places
- Larkrise Primary School1.4 km 434 pupils, 450 places
- St Frideswide Church of England Primary School1.4 km 330 pupils, 420 places
- Headington School Oxford1.4 km 1,082 pupils, 1,528 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 Oxford?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Oxford is Oxford Rail Station, 2.3 km away in a straight line.
- Oxford Rail Station Railway station 2.3 kmCycle
- Oxford Parkway Rail Station Railway station 6.5 kmDrive
- Radley Rail Station Railway station 7.1 kmDrive
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 Oxford?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Oxford, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- St. Clement's Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01865 248550 350 mWalk
- St Bartholomews & Hollow Way Med Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01865 242334 450 mWalk
- Bartlemas Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01865 263120 450 mWalk
- Cowley Road Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01865 791850 450 mWalk
- Kes@northgate Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01865 242657 1.4 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Oxford safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,330 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Oxford 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
- 417 September 2025
- 495 October 2025
- 464 November 2025
- 387 December 2025
- 385 January 2026
- 398 February 2026
- 398 March 2026
- 407 April 2026
- 453 May 2026
- 482 June 2026
- 521 July 2026
- 523 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 180, drugs 168, burglary 144, robbery 93, other crime 80, possession of weapons 24.
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 Oxford?
- Councils
- Oxford (3,617), Vale of White Horse (204), South Oxfordshire (30) and 1 other
- County council
- Oxfordshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Oxford East (2,366), Oxford West and Abingdon (1,455), Didcot and Wantage (15) and 2 others
- 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 Oxford
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Oxford is in Oxford; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Oxford about council tax Council tax, on oxford.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Oxford
- 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
Oxford postcodes
3,852 postcodes in use in Oxford, by district:
Those districts are all in the OX postcode area.
Check a Oxford postcode
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 Oxford
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Oxford's £450,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Oxford
- What is it like to live in Oxford?
- Homes sold for a typical £450,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 2,030 of the 3,552 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3,753 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 457 of its 3,852 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Oxford, 2.3 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 Oxford?
- Oxford is covered by postcode districts OX1, OX2, OX3 and OX4, across 3,852 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Oxford?
- Homes in Oxford sold for a typical £450,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,177 sales, no change on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Oxford?
- In Oxford, primary schools at its postcodes include East Oxford Primary School, Magdalen College School and St Michael's CofE Primary School, Oxford City; secondary schools at its postcodes include Magdalen College School, Cheney School and Oxford Spires Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Oxford have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Oxford is Oxford, 2.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Oxford?
- Ofcom reports on 3,552 of the 3,852 postcodes in Oxford. At 2,030 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Oxford at risk of flooding?
- 457 of the 3,852 postcodes in Oxford 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 3,753 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 Oxford?
- 216 of the 3,852 postcodes now in use in Oxford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 10 of the 1,483 homes sold in Oxford were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX4 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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