Witney
Witney is covered by postcode districts OX28 and OX29. It is in the West Oxfordshire council area, Oxfordshire.
Every postcode in Witney, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 32
- At medium risk at worst: 6
- At low risk at worst: 73
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 745
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 856 postcodes in Witney that ONS places, 32 have a home or business at high risk, 6 are at medium risk at worst, 73 are at low risk at worst and 745 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 51.7872, longitude -1.4894. 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
32 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. OX28 1YA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Witney?
Homes sold for a typical £340,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.4% on the 12 months before. At 615 of the 769 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 308 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 111 of its 856 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Finstock, 7.4 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 Witney?
Homes in Witney sold for a typical £340,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 386 sales, down 1.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £500,000 75 sales
- Semi-detached £367,250 118 sales
- Terraced £316,500 114 sales
- Flat or maisonette £200,000 79 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole OX28 district, Witney's main postcode district: a typical £335,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Witney: 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 Witney?
52 of the 856 postcodes now in use in Witney came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 472 homes sold in Witney were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX28 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 Witney | Across the OX28 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 1 of 386 (Under 1%) | 0 of 347 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 1 of 472 (Under 1%) | 0 of 412 (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 Witney?
Ofcom reports on 769 of the 856 postcodes in Witney. At 615 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 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 Witney at risk of flooding?
111 of the 856 postcodes in Witney 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 308 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 Witney?
The open schools at the postcodes in Witney (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
- The Batt Church of England Primary School350 m 289 pupils, 330 places
- Tower Hill Community Primary School400 m 174 pupils, 210 places
- St Mary's Church of England Infant School650 m 56 pupils, 90 places
- Queen Emma's Primary School900 m 179 pupils, 315 places
- The Blake Church of England Primary School1.1 km 367 pupils, 420 places
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Witney1.2 km 247 pupils, 250 places
- West Witney Primary School & Nursery1.2 km 434 pupils, 450 places
- Witney Community Primary School1.3 km 232 pupils, 210 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 Witney?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Witney is Finstock Rail Station, 7.4 km away in a straight line.
- Finstock Rail Station Railway station 7.4 kmDrive
- Combe (Oxon) Rail Station Railway station 8.3 kmDrive
- Hanborough Rail Station Railway station 9.0 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 Witney?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Witney. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Windrush Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01993 702911 50 mWalk
- Nuffield Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2024 · Phone 01993 703641 200 mWalk
- Cogges Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01993 700505 1.2 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Witney safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,690 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Witney 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
- 169 September 2025
- 157 October 2025
- 151 November 2025
- 158 December 2025
- 134 January 2026
- 122 February 2026
- 129 March 2026
- 130 April 2026
- 163 May 2026
- 132 June 2026
- 145 July 2026
- 100 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 32, bicycle theft 21, robbery 21, drugs 18, theft from the person 9, possession of weapons 4.
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 Witney?
- District, borough or city council
- West Oxfordshire
- County council
- Oxfordshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Witney
- Police force area
- Thames Valley
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
- MP
- Charlie Maynard (Liberal Democrat)
All 856 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources
Moving to Witney
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell West Oxfordshire about council tax Council tax, on westoxon.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Witney
- 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 Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Witney postcodes
856 postcodes in use in Witney, by district:
Those districts are all in the OX postcode area.
Check a Witney 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 Witney
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Witney's £340,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Witney
- What is it like to live in Witney?
- Homes sold for a typical £340,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.4% on the 12 months before. At 615 of the 769 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 308 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 111 of its 856 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Finstock, 7.4 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 Witney?
- Witney is covered by postcode districts OX28 and OX29, across 856 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Witney in?
- Witney is in the West Oxfordshire council area, and Oxfordshire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Witney?
- Witney is in the Witney parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Charlie Maynard (Liberal Democrat), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Witney?
- Homes in Witney sold for a typical £340,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 386 sales, down 1.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Witney?
- In Witney, primary schools at its postcodes include The Batt Church of England Primary School, Tower Hill Community Primary School and St Mary's Church of England Infant School; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Henry Box School, Wood Green School and Springfield School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Witney have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Witney is Finstock, 7.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Witney?
- Ofcom reports on 769 of the 856 postcodes in Witney. At 615 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Witney at risk of flooding?
- 111 of the 856 postcodes in Witney 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 308 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 Witney?
- 52 of the 856 postcodes now in use in Witney came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 472 homes sold in Witney were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX28 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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