Property market
The five-year median is £489,000 from 6 recorded sales in OX3 8FL. 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.
OX3 8FL
Barton & Sandhills · Oxford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Oxford
- Ward
- Barton & Sandhills
- Local authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East
- Postcode district
- OX3
- Postcode sector
- OX3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX3 8FL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX3
- Postcode sector
- OX3 8
- Latitude
- 51.763759
- Longitude
- -1.181462
- British National Grid easting
- 456,585
- British National Grid northing
- 207,547
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Oxford · E07000178
- Electoral ward
- Barton & Sandhills · E05013096
- Parish or community
- E04008099
- Westminster constituency
- Oxford East · E14001419
- Output area
- E00145281
- Lower layer super output area
- Oxford 007A · E01028515
- Middle layer super output area
- Oxford 007 · E02005946
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 OX3
Property
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Elton Close, Headington, Oxford, OX3 8FL | 5 January 2026 | £420,000 |
| 6, Elton Close, Headington, Oxford, OX3 8FL | 6 November 2025 | £428,000 |
| 12, Elton Close, Headington, Oxford, OX3 8FL | 28 October 2022 | £410,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 5
- 118 m
Sandhills Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 558 m
Endeavour Academy, Oxford
Academy special sponsor led
- 852 m
Bayards Hill School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 837
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 328
- Drugs 93
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Public order 63
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- OX3 8 residents
- 12,950
22 female, 24 male
Age bands in OX3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.1%
2,454 residents
1,635 residents
3,893 residents
3,200 residents
1,843 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX3 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+
- 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
9
within 5 km
HEDENA HEALTH
207 LONDON ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9JA
ODS code K84009
1.6 km
MANOR SURGERY
OSLER ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9BP
ODS code K84044
2.3 km
MORLAND HOUSE SURGERY
MORLAND CLOSE, WHEATLEY, OXFORD, OX33 1DP
ODS code K84014
3.4 km
TEMPLE COWLEY HEALTH CENTRE
TEMPLE ROAD, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 2HL
ODS code K84007
3.9 km
ST BARTHOLOMEWS & HOLLOW WAY MED CENTRE
MANZIL WAY, COWLEY ROAD, OXFORD, OX4 1XB
ODS code K84013
3.9 km
BARTLEMAS SURGERY
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 1 MANZIL WAY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84032
4.0 km
COWLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, MANZIL WAY, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84063
4.0 km
ST. CLEMENT'S SURGERY
39 TEMPLE STREET, OXFORD, OX4 1JS
ODS code K84060
4.5 km
DONNINGTON MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
DONNINGTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1 HENLEY AVENUE, OXFORD, OX4 4DH
ODS code K84004
4.7 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
Thornhill Park and Ride
BCT · Sandhills
- 0.1 miles
Thornhill Park and Ride
BCT · Thornhill Park & Ride
- 0.1 miles
Thornhill Park and Ride
BCT · Sandhills
- 0.1 miles
Thornhill Park and Ride
BCT · Thornhill Park & Ride
- 0.1 miles
Thornhill Park and Ride
BCT · Thornhill Park & Ride
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oxford 007A, 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
26,438 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 1
- 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
46 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 5 secondary schools. Sandhills Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 118 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
837 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.