Property market
The five-year median is £1,857,500 from 3 recorded sales in OX2 8HE. 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.
OX2 8HE
Kidlington East · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Oxford
- Ward
- Kidlington East
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX2 8HE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 8
- Latitude
- 51.803980
- Longitude
- -1.256268
- British National Grid easting
- 451,377
- British National Grid northing
- 211,965
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Kidlington East · E05010932
- Parish or community
- E04008047
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145254
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 019C · E01028511
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 019 · E02005939
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Water Eaton Manor, Water Eaton, Oxford, OX2 8HE | 31 March 2022 | £5,100,753 |
| Manor Cottage, Water Eaton, Oxford, OX2 8HE | 4 March 2022 | £625,000 |
| Southfield Farm, Water Eaton, Oxford, OX2 8HE | 30 September 2021 | £1,857,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.9 km
Cutteslowe Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.0 km
Edward Feild Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Woodeaton Manor School
Academy special sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 152
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 50
- Violence and sexual offences 42
- Public order 13
- Other theft 12
- Anti social behaviour 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- OX2 8 residents
- 6,139
6 female, 4 male
Age bands in OX2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,010 residents
602 residents
1,352 residents
1,673 residents
1,302 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX2 8 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+
- 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
- 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
GOSFORD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
167 OXFORD ROAD, GOSFORD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2NS
ODS code K84045
2.1 km
ISLIP SURGERY
THE SURGERY, BLETCHINGDON ROAD, ISLIP, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2TQ
ODS code K84003
2.6 km
THE KEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
EXETER CLOSE, OXFORD ROAD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1AP
ODS code K84082
3.0 km
BANBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
172 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 7BT
ODS code K84021
3.3 km
SUMMERTOWN HEALTH CENTRE
160 BANBURY ROAD, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD, OX2 7BS
ODS code K84011
3.3 km
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE
WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84078
4.9 km
OBSERVATORY MEDICAL PRACTICE
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE, WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84026
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Oxford Parkway Park and Ride
BCT · Water Eaton
- 0.7 miles
Oxford Parkway Park and Ride
BCT · Water Eaton
- 0.7 miles
Oxford Parkway Park and Ride
BCT · Water Eaton
- 0.8 miles
Oxford Parkway Rail Station
RLY · Oxford Parkway
- 0.8 miles
Oxford Parkway Rail Station
RSE · Oxford Parkway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 019C, 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
29,598 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Cutteslowe Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
152 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.