Property market
The five-year median is £27,925,000 from 1 recorded sale in OX16 2QU. 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 2QU
Banbury Cross and Neithrop · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 2QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 2
- Latitude
- 52.070867
- Longitude
- -1.341498
- British National Grid easting
- 445,232
- British National Grid northing
- 241,592
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Banbury Cross and Neithrop · E05010921
- Parish or community
- E04013353
- Westminster constituency
- Banbury · E14001072
- Output area
- E00144958
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 003B · E01028446
- 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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Kraft Foods Uk Ltd, Ruscote Avenue, Banbury, OX16 2QU | 14 December 2022 | £27,925,000 |
| Kraft Foods Uk Ltd, Ruscote Avenue, Banbury, OX16 2QU | 2 July 2018 | £4,885,146 |
| Kraft Foods Uk Ltd, Ruscote Avenue, Banbury, OX16 2QU | 13 March 2017 | £7,810,750 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 688 m
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Banbury
Academy converter
- 863 m
Hanwell Fields Community School
Academy converter
- 901 m
Hill View Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,380
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,384
- Public order 362
- Anti social behaviour 314
- Criminal damage and arson 301
- Shoplifting 277
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX16 2 residents
- 3,631
Age bands in OX16 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.9%
591 residents
342 residents
1,216 residents
735 residents
503 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
1.3 km
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
1.5 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
4 BURCHESTER PLACE, BANBURY, OX16 3WT
ODS code K84062
1.5 km
HIGHTOWN SURGERY
HIGHTOWN GARDENS, BANBURY, OX16 9DB
ODS code K84059
2.2 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
Marley Way
BCT · Banbury
- 0.1 miles
Marley Way
BCT · Banbury
- 0.2 miles
Tesco Extra
BCT · Banbury
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Banbury
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery
BCT · Banbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 003B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,604 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
29 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Banbury is the nearest published school at 688 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,380 published events cover 12 months, averaging 281.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,384 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.