Property market
The five-year median is £145,000 from 8 recorded sales in OX16 5BH. 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 5BH
Banbury Cross and Neithrop · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 5BH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 5
- Latitude
- 52.060842
- Longitude
- -1.335140
- British National Grid easting
- 445,678
- British National Grid northing
- 240,481
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
- 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
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 58, Flat 6, George Street, Banbury, OX16 5BH | 29 August 2025 | £145,000 |
| 57, George Street, Banbury, OX16 5BH | 16 July 2025 | £43,000 |
| 55 - 56, George Street, Banbury, OX16 5BH | 12 June 2025 | £145,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 6
- 503 m
St John's Priory School
Other independent school
- 531 m
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Banbury
Academy converter
- 600 m
English Language Training
Miscellaneous
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,693
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,512
- Shoplifting 423
- Public order 374
- Anti social behaviour 306
- Criminal damage and arson 291
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- OX16 5 residents
- 2,896
12 female, 15 male
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
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX16 5 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+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- 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
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
536 m
WINDRUSH SURGERY
21 WEST BAR STREET, BANBURY, OX16 9SA
ODS code K84024
598 m
HIGHTOWN SURGERY
HIGHTOWN GARDENS, BANBURY, OX16 9DB
ODS code K84059
1.1 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
4 BURCHESTER PLACE, BANBURY, OX16 3WT
ODS code K84062
1.2 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
- 0.0 miles
George Street
BCT · Banbury Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Banbury Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Street
BCT · Banbury Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Street
BCT · 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.
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
- 9
- Medium risk addresses
- 14
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
31 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 6 secondary schools. St John's Priory School is the nearest published school at 503 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,693 published events cover 12 months, averaging 307.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,512 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.