Property market
The five-year median is £717,500 from 8 recorded sales in OX2 8PG. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Oxford is £466,815 in June 2026, down 0.9% year on year.
OX2 8PG
Wolvercote · Oxford · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Oxford
- Ward
- Wolvercote
- Local authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX2 8PG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX2
- Postcode sector
- OX2 8
- Latitude
- 51.782965
- Longitude
- -1.293899
- British National Grid easting
- 448,805
- British National Grid northing
- 209,602
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Oxford · E07000178
- Electoral ward
- Wolvercote · E05013119
- Parish or community
- E43000128
- Westminster constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon · E14001420
- Output area
- E00145658
- Lower layer super output area
- Oxford 001B · E01028595
- Middle layer super output area
- Oxford 001 · E02005940
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
69 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 137, Godstow Road, Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8PG | 28 November 2025 | £685,000 |
| 135, Godstow Road, Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8PG | 3 June 2024 | £625,000 |
| 117, Godstow Road, Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8PG | 2 April 2024 | £590,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 938 m
Wolvercote Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Northern House Academy
Academy special converter
- 1.8 km
d'Overbroeck's
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 376
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 122
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Shoplifting 44
- Public order 37
- Other theft 34
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 131
- Postcode households
- 48
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- OX2 8 residents
- 6,139
63 female, 68 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 2.1% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 98.1%
- Gigabit-capable
- 98.1%
- 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
10
within 5 km
BANBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
172 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 7BT
ODS code K84021
2.3 km
SUMMERTOWN HEALTH CENTRE
160 BANBURY ROAD, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD, OX2 7BS
ODS code K84011
2.3 km
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE
WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84078
3.2 km
OBSERVATORY MEDICAL PRACTICE
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE, WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84026
3.2 km
GOSFORD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
167 OXFORD ROAD, GOSFORD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2NS
ODS code K84045
3.7 km
BEAUMONT ELMS PRACTICE
19 BEAUMONT STREET, OXFORD, OX1 2NA
ODS code K84016
3.9 km
KES@NORTHGATE
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE, 15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84605
4.2 km
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE
15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84080
4.2 km
THE KEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
EXETER CLOSE, OXFORD ROAD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1AP
ODS code K84082
4.3 km
LUTHER STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
LUTHER STREET, OXFORD, OX1 1UL
ODS code K84066
4.6 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
- 0.1 miles
Home Close
BCT · Lower Wolvercote
- 0.1 miles
Home Close
BCT · Lower Wolvercote
- 0.1 miles
Papermill Square
BCT · Lower Wolvercote
- 0.1 miles
Home Close
BCT · Lower Wolvercote
- 0.2 miles
Elmthorpe Road
BCT · Lower Wolvercote
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oxford 001B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,928 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
39 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Wolvercote Primary School is the nearest published school at 938 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
376 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 122 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.