Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Cooper School is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX26 4YD
Bicester East · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bicester East
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX26 4YD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2002
- Terminated
- 1 October 2003
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 4
- Latitude
- 51.906249
- Longitude
- -1.140485
- British National Grid easting
- 459,226
- British National Grid northing
- 223,427
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Bicester East · E05010925
- Parish or community
- E04013332
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145007
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 013C · E01028457
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 013 · E02005933
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 368 m
The Cooper School
Academy converter
- 402 m
Glory Farm Primary School
Academy converter
- 486 m
Bardwell School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,594
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 625
- Shoplifting 260
- Public order 132
- Anti social behaviour 121
- Criminal damage and arson 116
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX26 4 residents
- 5,876
Age bands in OX26 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
1,002 residents
659 residents
1,637 residents
1,667 residents
921 residents
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
BICESTER HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, COKER CLOSE, BICESTER, OX26 6AT
ODS code K84052
1.6 km
MONTGOMERY HOUSE SURGERY
PIGGY LANE, BICESTER, OX26 6HT
ODS code K84038
1.6 km
ALCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP
LANGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE, 9 NIGHTINGALE PLACE, BICESTER, OX26 6XX
ODS code K84613
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Whitley Crescent
BCT · Glory Farm
- 0.0 miles
Whitley Crescent
BCT · Glory Farm
- 0.1 miles
Bristol Road
BCT · Glory Farm
- 0.1 miles
Bristol Road
BCT · Glory Farm
- 0.2 miles
Lincoln Close
BCT · Glory Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 013C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,449 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,594 published events cover 12 months, averaging 132.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 625 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.