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.

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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

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.

Source: 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.

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

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.

Source: 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