Property market
The five-year median is £392,500 from 2 recorded sales in OX16 1WE. 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 1WE
Banbury Hardwick · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 1WE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 1
- Latitude
- 52.079521
- Longitude
- -1.356912
- British National Grid easting
- 444,167
- British National Grid northing
- 242,545
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
- E00186028
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 002E · E01032943
- 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
70 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 19, Meadowsweet Way, Banbury, OX16 1WE | 24 October 2025 | £440,000 |
| 4, Meadowsweet Way, Banbury, OX16 1WE | 12 August 2025 | £345,000 |
| 22, Meadowsweet Way, Banbury, OX16 1WE | 23 November 2020 | £426,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 610 m
Hardwick Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 766 m
Hanwell Fields Community School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
North Oxfordshire Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,390
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 585
- Shoplifting 179
- Anti social behaviour 132
- Criminal damage and arson 119
- Public order 110
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 111
- Postcode households
- 41
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- OX16 1 residents
- 12,184
60 female, 51 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 0.9% 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
5
within 5 km
WINDRUSH SURGERY
21 WEST BAR STREET, BANBURY, OX16 9SA
ODS code K84024
2.5 km
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
2.7 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
4 BURCHESTER PLACE, BANBURY, OX16 3WT
ODS code K84062
2.9 km
HIGHTOWN SURGERY
HIGHTOWN GARDENS, BANBURY, OX16 9DB
ODS code K84059
3.4 km
CROPREDY SURGERY
CLAYDON ROAD, CROPREDY, BANBURY, OX17 1FB
ODS code K84056
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Winter Gardens School Bus Stop
BCT · Banbury
- 0.1 miles
Parsley Place
BCT · Hardwick
- 0.1 miles
Pope Walk
BCT · Hardwick
- 0.1 miles
Pope Walk
BCT · Hardwick
- 0.1 miles
Parsley Place
BCT · Hardwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 002E, 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
24,852 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 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
- 1
- 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. Hardwick Primary School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 610 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,390 published events cover 12 months, averaging 115.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 585 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.