Property market
The five-year median is £560,000 from 1 recorded sale in OX26 3NP. 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 3NP
Bicester North and Caversfield · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bicester
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX26 3NP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 3
- Latitude
- 51.908462
- Longitude
- -1.154297
- British National Grid easting
- 458,273
- British National Grid northing
- 223,662
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Bicester North and Caversfield · E05010926
- Parish or community
- E04013332
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145011
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 012D · E01028462
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 012 · E02005932
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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Gates, 2, Banbury Road, Bicester, OX26 3NP | 11 November 2021 | £560,000 |
| Blue Gates, 1, Banbury Road, Bicester, OX26 3NP | 24 March 2021 | £517,000 |
| The Willow, Banbury Road, Bicester, OX26 3NP | 10 August 2015 | £585,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 198 m
Bure Park Primary School
Community school
- 491 m
Southwold Primary School
Academy converter
- 643 m
The Cooper School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,008
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 853
- Shoplifting 281
- Anti social behaviour 167
- Public order 154
- Criminal damage and arson 148
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.6
- OX26 3 residents
- 6,729
7 female, 11 male
Age bands in OX26 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.1%
1,208 residents
795 residents
2,106 residents
1,937 residents
679 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX26 3 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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- 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
BICESTER HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, COKER CLOSE, BICESTER, OX26 6AT
ODS code K84052
1.3 km
MONTGOMERY HOUSE SURGERY
PIGGY LANE, BICESTER, OX26 6HT
ODS code K84038
1.4 km
ALCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP
LANGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE, 9 NIGHTINGALE PLACE, BICESTER, OX26 6XX
ODS code K84613
2.2 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
- 0.0 miles
Blake Road
BCT · Bicester
- 0.0 miles
Blake Road
BCT · Bicester
- 0.1 miles
Barberry Place Shops
BCT · Bicester
- 0.1 miles
Barberry Place Shops
BCT · Bicester
- 0.2 miles
Buckingham Crescent
BCT · Bicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 012D, 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
26,987 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 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. Bure Park Primary School is the nearest published school at 198 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,008 published events cover 12 months, averaging 167.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 853 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.