Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 6 secondary schools. University of Oxford is the nearest published school at 78 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX2 6AA
Carfax & Jericho · Oxford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Carfax & Jericho
- Local authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX2 6AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 6
- Latitude
- 51.758072
- Longitude
- -1.263759
- British National Grid easting
- 450,912
- British National Grid northing
- 206,854
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Oxford · E07000178
- Electoral ward
- Carfax & Jericho · E05013098
- Parish or community
- E43000128
- Westminster constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon · E14001420
- Output area
- E00145438
- Lower layer super output area
- Oxford 009C · E01028550
- Middle layer super output area
- Oxford 009 · E02005948
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 OX2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 6
- 78 m
University of Oxford
Higher education institutions
- 275 m
St Barnabas' Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 470 m
The Eckersley School of English
Miscellaneous
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,087
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,431
- Shoplifting 944
- Other theft 525
- Public order 451
- Bicycle theft 434
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- OX2 6 residents
- 10,626
2 female, 4 male
Age bands in OX2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 29%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.4%
1,233 residents
3,044 residents
2,915 residents
2,003 residents
1,303 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX2 6 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+
- 92.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 30.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 30.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 30.8%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 92.3%
- 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
16
within 5 km
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE
WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84078
290 m
OBSERVATORY MEDICAL PRACTICE
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE, WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84026
290 m
BEAUMONT ELMS PRACTICE
19 BEAUMONT STREET, OXFORD, OX1 2NA
ODS code K84016
396 m
KES@NORTHGATE
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE, 15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84605
702 m
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE
15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84080
702 m
LUTHER STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
LUTHER STREET, OXFORD, OX1 1UL
ODS code K84066
1.2 km
SUMMERTOWN HEALTH CENTRE
160 BANBURY ROAD, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD, OX2 7BS
ODS code K84011
1.8 km
BANBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
172 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 7BT
ODS code K84021
1.9 km
ST. CLEMENT'S SURGERY
39 TEMPLE STREET, OXFORD, OX4 1JS
ODS code K84060
1.9 km
ST BARTHOLOMEWS & HOLLOW WAY MED CENTRE
MANZIL WAY, COWLEY ROAD, OXFORD, OX4 1XB
ODS code K84013
2.5 km
BARTLEMAS SURGERY
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 1 MANZIL WAY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84032
2.5 km
COWLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, MANZIL WAY, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84063
2.5 km
DONNINGTON MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
DONNINGTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1 HENLEY AVENUE, OXFORD, OX4 4DH
ODS code K84004
3.3 km
MANOR SURGERY
OSLER ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9BP
ODS code K84044
3.4 km
HEDENA HEALTH
207 LONDON ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9JA
ODS code K84009
4.1 km
TEMPLE COWLEY HEALTH CENTRE
TEMPLE ROAD, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 2HL
ODS code K84007
4.4 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
University Press
BCT · Jericho
- 0.1 miles
Little Clarendon Street
BCT · Jericho
- 0.1 miles
University Press
BCT · Jericho
- 0.1 miles
Ruskin College
BCT · Jericho
- 0.1 miles
St Giles Church
BCT · Oxford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oxford 009C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,757 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
5,087 published events cover 12 months, averaging 423.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,431 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.