Oxford

What is it like to live in Oxford?

Homes sold for a typical £450,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. 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 40 primary schools, 11 secondary schools and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 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.

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 Oxford?

Homes in Oxford sold for a typical £450,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,177 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £450,000 from 1,483 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• 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.

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

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 September 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).

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 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

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. 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 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

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

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

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

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.

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

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