Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Frank Wise School is the nearest published school at 328 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX16 9QG
Banbury Cross and Neithrop · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX16 9QG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2002
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX16
- Postcode sector
- OX16 9
- Latitude
- 52.058917
- Longitude
- -1.347683
- British National Grid easting
- 444,820
- British National Grid northing
- 240,259
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
- E00144880
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 006B · E01028431
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 006 · E02005926
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 328 m
Frank Wise School
Community special school
- 502 m
Queensway School
Community school
- 503 m
Harriers Banbury Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,732
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,649
- Public order 387
- Anti social behaviour 339
- Shoplifting 322
- Criminal damage and arson 298
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX16 9 residents
- 12,968
Age bands in OX16 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.4%
1,947 residents
1,264 residents
3,060 residents
3,303 residents
3,089 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+
- 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 straight-line
WINDRUSH SURGERY
21 WEST BAR STREET, BANBURY, OX16 9SA
ODS code K84024
302 m
BANBURY CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH BAR HOUSE, 6 OXFORD ROAD, BANBURY, OX16 9AD
ODS code K84028
508 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
2.1 km
BLOXHAM SURGERY
GODSWELL LODGE, CHURCH STREET, BLOXHAM, BANBURY, OX15 4ES
ODS code K84058
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bath Road
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.0 miles
Bath Road
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
Queens Road
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
Queens Road
BCT · Neithrop
- 0.1 miles
West Bar Street
BCT · Neithrop
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 006B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,575 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
Recorded crime
3,732 published events cover 12 months, averaging 311 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,649 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.