Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 4 secondary schools. Mabel Prichard School is the nearest published school at 830 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX4 2LQ
Blackbird Leys · Oxford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackbird Leys
- Local authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East
- Postcode district
- OX4
- Postcode sector
- OX4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX4 2LQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2004
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX4
- Postcode sector
- OX4 2
- Latitude
- 51.730110
- Longitude
- -1.197911
- British National Grid easting
- 455,491
- British National Grid northing
- 203,792
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Oxford · E07000178
- Electoral ward
- Blackbird Leys · E05013097
- Parish or community
- E43000128
- Westminster constituency
- Oxford East · E14001419
- Output area
- E00145485
- Lower layer super output area
- Oxford 020D · E01028557
- Middle layer super output area
- Oxford 020 · E02007021
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 OX4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 4
- 830 m
Mabel Prichard School
Academy special converter
- 831 m
St Francis Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 853 m
Orchard Meadow Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,133
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,022
- Shoplifting 439
- Anti social behaviour 265
- Other theft 242
- Public order 235
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX4 2 residents
- 11,835
Age bands in OX4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 23.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.4%
1,719 residents
2,839 residents
4,394 residents
2,309 residents
1,033 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
TEMPLE COWLEY HEALTH CENTRE
TEMPLE ROAD, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 2HL
ODS code K84007
1.1 km
THE LEYS HEALTH CENTRE
DUNNOCK WAY, BLACKBIRD LEYS, OXFORD, OX4 7EX
ODS code K84031
1.4 km
DONNINGTON MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
DONNINGTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1 HENLEY AVENUE, OXFORD, OX4 4DH
ODS code K84004
2.4 km
BARTLEMAS SURGERY
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 1 MANZIL WAY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84032
3.1 km
COWLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE EAST OXFORD HEALTH CENTRE, MANZIL WAY, COWLEY, OXFORD, OX4 1XD
ODS code K84063
3.1 km
ST BARTHOLOMEWS & HOLLOW WAY MED CENTRE
MANZIL WAY, COWLEY ROAD, OXFORD, OX4 1XB
ODS code K84013
3.1 km
HEDENA HEALTH
207 LONDON ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9JA
ODS code K84009
3.6 km
ST. CLEMENT'S SURGERY
39 TEMPLE STREET, OXFORD, OX4 1JS
ODS code K84060
3.6 km
MANOR SURGERY
OSLER ROAD, HEADINGTON, OXFORD, OX3 9BP
ODS code K84044
3.7 km
LUTHER STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
LUTHER STREET, OXFORD, OX1 1UL
ODS code K84066
4.6 km
MORLAND HOUSE SURGERY
MORLAND CLOSE, WHEATLEY, OXFORD, OX33 1DP
ODS code K84014
4.6 km
KES@NORTHGATE
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE, 15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84605
4.9 km
NORTHGATE HEALTH CENTRE
15 MARKET STREET, OXFORD, OX1 3EF
ODS code K84080
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Car Factory Gate
BCT · Cowley
- 0.1 miles
Car Factory Gate
BCT · Cowley
- 0.2 miles
Lidl
BCT · Cowley
- 0.2 miles
Lidl
BCT · Cowley
- 0.3 miles
Tesco Store
BCT · Cowley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oxford 020D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,347 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
3,133 published events cover 12 months, averaging 261.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,022 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.