Schools
75 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 7 secondary schools. Windmill Primary School is the nearest published school at 174 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX3 8NH
Headington · Oxford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Headington
- Local authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East
- Postcode district
- OX3
- Postcode sector
- OX3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX3 8NH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2004
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX3
- Postcode sector
- OX3 8
- Latitude
- 51.757602
- Longitude
- -1.205320
- British National Grid easting
- 454,946
- British National Grid northing
- 206,844
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Oxford · E07000178
- Electoral ward
- Headington · E05013103
- Parish or community
- E43000128
- Westminster constituency
- Oxford East · E14001419
- Output area
- E00145366
- Lower layer super output area
- Oxford 006B · E01028535
- Middle layer super output area
- Oxford 006 · E02005945
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 75
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 7
- 174 m
Windmill Primary School
Community school
- 418 m
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Oxford
Voluntary controlled school
- 559 m
Headington Quarry Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,832
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,105
- Shoplifting 234
- Public order 234
- Anti social behaviour 233
- Other theft 231
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX3 8 residents
- 12,950
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
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
18
within 5 km straight-line
HEDENA HEALTH
207 LONDON ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9JA
ODS code K84009
496 m
MANOR SURGERY
OSLER ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9BP
ODS code K84044
797 m
ST BARTHOLOMEWS & HOLLOW WAY MED CENTRE
MANZIL WAY, COWLEY ROAD, OXFORD, OX4 1XB
ODS code K84013
2.2 km
BARTLEMAS SURGERY
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 1 MANZIL WAY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84032
2.2 km
COWLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, MANZIL WAY, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84063
2.2 km
TEMPLE COWLEY HEALTH CENTRE
TEMPLE ROAD, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 2HL
ODS code K84007
2.6 km
ST. CLEMENT'S SURGERY
39 TEMPLE STREET, OXFORD, OX4 1JS
ODS code K84060
2.7 km
DONNINGTON MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
DONNINGTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1 HENLEY AVENUE, OXFORD, OX4 4DH
ODS code K84004
3.1 km
KES@NORTHGATE
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE, 15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84605
3.7 km
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE
15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84080
3.7 km
LUTHER STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
LUTHER STREET, OXFORD, OX1 1UL
ODS code K84066
3.8 km
BEAUMONT ELMS PRACTICE
19 BEAUMONT STREET, OXFORD, OX1 2NA
ODS code K84016
3.9 km
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE
WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84078
4.2 km
OBSERVATORY MEDICAL PRACTICE
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE, WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84026
4.2 km
SUMMERTOWN HEALTH CENTRE
160 BANBURY ROAD, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD, OX2 7BS
ODS code K84011
4.4 km
BANBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
172 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 7BT
ODS code K84021
4.4 km
THE LEYS HEALTH CENTRE
DUNNOCK WAY, BLACKBIRD LEYS, OXFORD, OX4 7EX
ODS code K84031
4.5 km
MORLAND HOUSE SURGERY
MORLAND CLOSE, WHEATLEY, OXFORD, OX33 1DP
ODS code K84014
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Margaret Road
BCT · Headington Quarry
- 0.2 miles
Margaret Road
BCT · Headington Quarry
- 0.2 miles
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
BCT · Headington
- 0.2 miles
Quarry Hollow
BCT · Headington Quarry
- 0.2 miles
Headington Shops
BCT · Headington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oxford 006B, 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
32,135 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
2,832 published events cover 12 months, averaging 236 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,105 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.