Property market
The five-year median is £330,000 from 1 recorded sale in OX16 1BE. 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 1BE
Banbury Hardwick · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 1BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 1
- Latitude
- 52.073837
- Longitude
- -1.363180
- British National Grid easting
- 443,743
- British National Grid northing
- 241,909
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Banbury Hardwick · E05010923
- Parish or community
- E04013353
- Westminster constituency
- Banbury · E14001072
- Output area
- E00144932
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 002C · E01028443
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 002 · E02005922
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
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Alvis Gate, Banbury, OX16 1BE | 14 November 2025 | £330,000 |
| 4, Alvis Gate, Banbury, OX16 1BE | 3 February 2021 | £317,500 |
| 2, Alvis Gate, Banbury, OX16 1BE | 29 October 2020 | £295,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 375 m
North Oxfordshire Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 491 m
Hardwick Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 722 m
William Morris Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,888
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 895
- Anti social behaviour 196
- Criminal damage and arson 169
- Public order 165
- Shoplifting 132
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- OX16 1 residents
- 12,184
13 female, 13 male
Age bands in OX16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.1%
2,642 residents
1,415 residents
4,198 residents
3,120 residents
1,423 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX16 1 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
4
within 5 km
WINDRUSH SURGERY
21 WEST BAR STREET, BANBURY, OX16 9SA
ODS code K84024
2.1 km
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
2.4 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
4 BURCHESTER PLACE, BANBURY, OX16 3WT
ODS code K84062
3.0 km
HIGHTOWN SURGERY
HIGHTOWN GARDENS, BANBURY, OX16 9DB
ODS code K84059
3.1 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Talbot Close
BCT · Ruscote
- 0.1 miles
Morgan Close
BCT · Ruscote
- 0.1 miles
Romney Road
BCT · Hardwick
- 0.1 miles
Romney Road
BCT · Hardwick
- 0.1 miles
Hardwick Park
BCT · Hardwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 002C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,304 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. North Oxfordshire Academy is the nearest published school at 375 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,888 published events cover 12 months, averaging 157.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 895 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.