Property market
The five-year median is £285,000 from 4 recorded sales in OX26 2BB. 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.
OX26 2BB
Bicester West · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bicester
- Ward
- Bicester West
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX26 2BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 2
- Latitude
- 51.898349
- Longitude
- -1.164573
- British National Grid easting
- 457,579
- British National Grid northing
- 222,529
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Bicester West · E05010928
- Parish or community
- E04013332
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145051
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 014A · E01028466
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 014 · E02005934
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 OX26
Property
25 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20, Villiers Road, Bicester, OX26 2BB | 22 July 2024 | £290,000 |
| 26, Villiers Road, Bicester, OX26 2BB | 15 April 2024 | £320,000 |
| 34, Villiers Road, Bicester, OX26 2BB | 28 March 2024 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 368 m
The Bicester School
Academy sponsor led
- 501 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bicester
Academy converter
- 607 m
Brookside Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,770
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 925
- Shoplifting 785
- Anti social behaviour 189
- Public order 179
- Other theft 176
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- OX26 2 residents
- 8,965
18 female, 30 male
Age bands in OX26 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
1,478 residents
891 residents
2,315 residents
2,432 residents
1,731 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX26 2 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+
- 95.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.7%
- 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
3
within 5 km
MONTGOMERY HOUSE SURGERY
PIGGY LANE, BICESTER, OX26 6HT
ODS code K84038
508 m
BICESTER HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, COKER CLOSE, BICESTER, OX26 6AT
ODS code K84052
537 m
ALCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP
LANGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE, 9 NIGHTINGALE PLACE, BICESTER, OX26 6XX
ODS code K84613
2.0 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
Villiers Road
BCT · Kings End
- 0.0 miles
Villiers Road
BCT · Kings End
- 0.1 miles
Kings End Post Office
BCT · Kings End
- 0.1 miles
Kings Avenue
BCT · Kings End
- 0.1 miles
Kings Avenue
BCT · Kings End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 014A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,856 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 4
- 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
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Bicester School is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,770 published events cover 12 months, averaging 230.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 925 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.