Property market
The five-year median is £280,000 from 11 recorded sales in OX26 6YP. 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 6YP
Bicester South and Ambrosden · 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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX26 6YP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 6
- Latitude
- 51.890688
- Longitude
- -1.134664
- British National Grid easting
- 459,647
- British National Grid northing
- 221,701
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Bicester South and Ambrosden · E05012968
- Parish or community
- E04013332
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145030
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 015C · E01028465
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 015 · E02005935
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
149 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 32, Avocet Way, Bicester, OX26 6YP | 12 December 2025 | £236,200 |
| 94, Avocet Way, Bicester, OX26 6YP | 17 March 2025 | £370,000 |
| 50, Avocet Way, Bicester, OX26 6YP | 19 November 2024 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 295 m
Langford Village Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Graven Hill Primary School
Free schools
- 1.4 km
Longfields Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,382
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 494
- Violence and sexual offences 392
- Public order 102
- Other theft 80
- Anti social behaviour 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- Postcode households
- 47
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- OX26 6 residents
- 9,517
40 female, 47 male
Age bands in OX26 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.8%
1,610 residents
1,020 residents
3,399 residents
2,497 residents
1,365 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX26 6 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+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
ALCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP
LANGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE, 9 NIGHTINGALE PLACE, BICESTER, OX26 6XX
ODS code K84613
261 m
BICESTER HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, COKER CLOSE, BICESTER, OX26 6AT
ODS code K84052
1.7 km
MONTGOMERY HOUSE SURGERY
PIGGY LANE, BICESTER, OX26 6HT
ODS code K84038
1.7 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
Peregrine Way
BCT · Langford Village
- 0.1 miles
Peregrine Way
BCT · Langford Village
- 0.2 miles
Langford Medical Practice
BCT · Langford Village
- 0.2 miles
Langford Medical Practice
BCT · Langford Village
- 0.3 miles
Ravencroft
BCT · Langford Village
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 015C, 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
32,249 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 13
- 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. Langford Village Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 295 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,382 published events cover 12 months, averaging 115.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 494 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.