Property market
The five-year median is £215,000 from 1 recorded sale in OX16 0QF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cherwell is £353,632 in June 2026, up 3.8% year on year.
OX16 0QF
Banbury Ruscote · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 0QF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 0
- Latitude
- 52.060330
- Longitude
- -1.356254
- British National Grid easting
- 444,231
- British National Grid northing
- 240,411
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
- E00144966
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 005A · E01028449
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 005 · E02005925
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
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 40, Margaret Close, Banbury, OX16 0QF | 7 July 2023 | £215,000 |
| 34, Margaret Close, Banbury, OX16 0QF | 27 July 2021 | £215,000 |
| 32, Margaret Close, Banbury, OX16 0QF | 28 July 2017 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 115 m
Orchard Fields Community School
Community school
- 299 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury
Academy converter
- 356 m
Frank Wise School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,277
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,514
- Public order 350
- Anti social behaviour 315
- Criminal damage and arson 281
- Shoplifting 170
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- OX16 0 residents
- 11,968
18 female, 14 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX16 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
WINDRUSH SURGERY
21 WEST BAR STREET, BANBURY, OX16 9SA
ODS code K84024
904 m
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
1.1 km
HIGHTOWN SURGERY
HIGHTOWN GARDENS, BANBURY, OX16 9DB
ODS code K84059
1.7 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
4 BURCHESTER PLACE, BANBURY, OX16 3WT
ODS code K84062
2.6 km
BLOXHAM SURGERY
GODSWELL LODGE, CHURCH STREET, BLOXHAM, BANBURY, OX15 4ES
ODS code K84058
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Goulds Villas
BCT · Bretch Hill
- 0.1 miles
Deacon Way
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
Gillett Road
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.2 miles
Penrose Drive
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.2 miles
Mold Crescent
BCT · Neithrop
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 005A, 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
9,705 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Orchard Fields Community School is the nearest published school at 115 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,277 published events cover 12 months, averaging 273.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,514 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.