Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Frank Wise School is the nearest published school at 395 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX16 0EF
Banbury Ruscote · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Banbury Ruscote
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 0EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2014
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 0
- Latitude
- 52.061771
- Longitude
- -1.351697
- British National Grid easting
- 444,542
- British National Grid northing
- 240,574
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Banbury Ruscote · E05010924
- Parish or community
- E04013353
- Westminster constituency
- Banbury · E14001072
- Output area
- E00144962
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 003D · E01028448
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 003 · E02005923
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore OX16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 395 m
Frank Wise School
Community special school
- 438 m
Orchard Fields Community School
Community school
- 585 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,720
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,585
- Public order 386
- Shoplifting 361
- Anti social behaviour 334
- Criminal damage and arson 309
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX16 0 residents
- 11,968
Age bands in OX16 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.8%
2,558 residents
1,425 residents
3,398 residents
2,917 residents
1,650 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
WINDRUSH SURGERY
21 WEST BAR STREET, BANBURY, OX16 9SA
ODS code K84024
659 m
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
897 m
HIGHTOWN SURGERY
HIGHTOWN GARDENS, BANBURY, OX16 9DB
ODS code K84059
1.6 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
4 BURCHESTER PLACE, BANBURY, OX16 3WT
ODS code K84062
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Penrose Drive
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Way South
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
Gillett Road
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
Boxhedge Road West
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
Boxhedge Road West
BCT · Neithrop
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 003D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,102 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,720 published events cover 12 months, averaging 310 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,585 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.