Schools
73 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 6 secondary schools. Ruskin College is the nearest published school at 417 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX3 9DS
Headington Hill & Northway · Oxford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East
- Postcode district
- OX3
- Postcode sector
- OX3 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX3 9DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX3
- Postcode sector
- OX3 9
- Latitude
- 51.763867
- Longitude
- -1.219773
- British National Grid easting
- 453,941
- British National Grid northing
- 207,530
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Oxford · E07000178
- Electoral ward
- Headington Hill & Northway · E05013104
- Parish or community
- E43000128
- Westminster constituency
- Oxford East · E14001419
- Output area
- E00145372
- Lower layer super output area
- Oxford 006A · E01028534
- 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
- 73
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 6
- 417 m
Ruskin College
Further education
- 548 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Oxford
Voluntary aided school
- 712 m
Headington Rye Oxford
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,360
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 837
- Shoplifting 251
- Other theft 223
- Anti social behaviour 205
- Public order 192
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX3 9 residents
- 10,739
Age bands in OX3 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.5%
1,960 residents
1,269 residents
3,765 residents
2,510 residents
1,480 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
16
within 5 km
MANOR SURGERY
OSLER ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9BP
ODS code K84044
422 m
HEDENA HEALTH
207 LONDON ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9JA
ODS code K84009
1.1 km
ST BARTHOLOMEWS & HOLLOW WAY MED CENTRE
MANZIL WAY, COWLEY ROAD, OXFORD, OX4 1XB
ODS code K84013
2.0 km
BARTLEMAS SURGERY
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 1 MANZIL WAY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84032
2.1 km
COWLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, MANZIL WAY, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84063
2.1 km
ST. CLEMENT'S SURGERY
39 TEMPLE STREET, OXFORD, OX4 1JS
ODS code K84060
2.3 km
KES@NORTHGATE
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE, 15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84605
2.9 km
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE
15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84080
2.9 km
BEAUMONT ELMS PRACTICE
19 BEAUMONT STREET, OXFORD, OX1 2NA
ODS code K84016
3.0 km
LUTHER STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
LUTHER STREET, OXFORD, OX1 1UL
ODS code K84066
3.2 km
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE
WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84078
3.2 km
OBSERVATORY MEDICAL PRACTICE
JERICHO HEALTH CENTRE, WALTON STREET, OXFORD, OX2 6NW
ODS code K84026
3.2 km
SUMMERTOWN HEALTH CENTRE
160 BANBURY ROAD, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD, OX2 7BS
ODS code K84011
3.2 km
BANBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
172 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 7BT
ODS code K84021
3.3 km
TEMPLE COWLEY HEALTH CENTRE
TEMPLE ROAD, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 2HL
ODS code K84007
3.3 km
DONNINGTON MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
DONNINGTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1 HENLEY AVENUE, OXFORD, OX4 4DH
ODS code K84004
3.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
JR Hospital Main Entrance
BCT · John Radcliffe Hospital
- 0.1 miles
JR Hospital Main Entrance
BCT · John Radcliffe Hospital
- 0.1 miles
JR Hospital Main Entrance
BCT · John Radcliffe Hospital
- 0.1 miles
JR Hospital Main Entrance
BCT · John Radcliffe Hospital
- 0.1 miles
JR Hospital Main Entrance
BCT · John Radcliffe Hospital
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oxford 006A, 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
33,477 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
2,360 published events cover 12 months, averaging 196.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 837 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.