Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. LVS Oxford is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX5 1ZA
Kidlington West · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kidlington West
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX5
- Postcode sector
- OX5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX5 1ZA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX5
- Postcode sector
- OX5 1
- Latitude
- 51.830771
- Longitude
- -1.310421
- British National Grid easting
- 447,615
- British National Grid northing
- 214,908
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Kidlington West · E05010933
- Parish or community
- E04008057
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145154
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 019A · E01028488
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 019 · E02005939
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 OX5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.5 km
LVS Oxford
Other independent special school
- 1.5 km
North Kidlington Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
William Fletcher Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 297
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 163
- Other theft 29
- Public order 23
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Criminal damage and arson 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX5 1 residents
- 11,727
Age bands in OX5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,891 residents
1,123 residents
3,314 residents
3,301 residents
2,409 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
4
within 5 km
THE KEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
EXETER CLOSE, OXFORD ROAD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1AP
ODS code K84082
1.8 km
GOSFORD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
167 OXFORD ROAD, GOSFORD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2NS
ODS code K84045
2.7 km
WOODSTOCK SURGERY
1 PARK LANE, WOODSTOCK, OX20 1UB
ODS code K84042
3.5 km
ISLIP SURGERY
THE SURGERY, BLETCHINGDON ROAD, ISLIP, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2TQ
ODS code K84003
5.0 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
London Oxford Airport
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
London Oxford Airport
AIR · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
Oxford Motor Park
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.2 miles
London Oxford Airport
GAT · Kidlington
- 0.2 miles
Evenlode Crescent
BCT · Kidlington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 019A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,063 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
297 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 163 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.