Property market
The five-year median is £248,000 from 1 recorded sale in OX16 5AZ. 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 5AZ
Banbury Grimsbury and Hightown · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 5AZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- 1 December 2008
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 5
- Latitude
- 52.060739
- Longitude
- -1.331203
- British National Grid easting
- 445,948
- British National Grid northing
- 240,472
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Banbury Grimsbury and Hightown · E05010922
- Parish or community
- E04013353
- Westminster constituency
- Banbury · E14001072
- Output area
- E00144920
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 004A · E01028435
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 004 · E02005924
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Quill Mill, Lower Cherwell Street, Banbury, OX16 5AZ | 29 September 2023 | £248,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 578 m
Dashwood Banbury Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 703 m
St John's Priory School
Other independent school
- 724 m
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Banbury
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,291
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,347
- Shoplifting 335
- Public order 335
- Anti social behaviour 286
- Criminal damage and arson 266
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX16 5 residents
- 2,896
Age bands in OX16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.7%
392 residents
436 residents
1,306 residents
760 residents
461 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
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
746 m
WINDRUSH SURGERY
21 WEST BAR STREET, BANBURY, OX16 9SA
ODS code K84024
853 m
WOODLANDS SURGERY
4 BURCHESTER PLACE, BANBURY, OX16 3WT
ODS code K84062
1.0 km
HIGHTOWN SURGERY
HIGHTOWN GARDENS, BANBURY, OX16 9DB
ODS code K84059
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Banbury Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Street
BCT · Banbury Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Banbury Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Banbury Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Street
BCT · Banbury Town Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 004A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,694 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. Dashwood Banbury Academy is the nearest published school at 578 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,291 published events cover 12 months, averaging 274.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,347 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.