Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Icknield Community College is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX49 5RB
Watlington · South Oxfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Watlington
- Local authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame
- Postcode district
- OX49
- Postcode sector
- OX49 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX49 5RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX49
- Postcode sector
- OX49 5
- Latitude
- 51.648394
- Longitude
- -1.007076
- British National Grid easting
- 468,794
- British National Grid northing
- 194,866
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- South Oxfordshire · E07000179
- Electoral ward
- Watlington · E05009751
- Parish or community
- E04012498
- Westminster constituency
- Henley and Thame · E14001280
- Output area
- E00146077
- Lower layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 008B · E01028679
- Middle layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 008 · E02005965
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 OX49
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 1 m
Icknield Community College
Academy converter
- 1 m
Watlington Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.9 km
Lewknor Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 108
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 49
- Other theft 12
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Public order 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX49 5 residents
- 4,204
Age bands in OX49 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
628 residents
371 residents
735 residents
1,313 residents
1,006 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.
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Icknield Community College
BCT · Watlington
- 0.0 miles
Icknield Community College
BCT · Watlington
- 0.2 miles
Library
BCT · Watlington
- 0.2 miles
Love Lane
BCT · Watlington
- 0.2 miles
Love Lane
BCT · Watlington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Oxfordshire 008B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,329 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Recorded crime
108 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 49 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.