Property market
The five-year median is £462,500 from 4 recorded sales in OX5 2DB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cherwell is £353,632 in June 2026, up 3.8% year on year.
OX5 2DB
Kidlington West · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Kidlington
- Ward
- Kidlington West
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX5
- Postcode sector
- OX5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX5 2DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX5
- Postcode sector
- OX5 2
- Latitude
- 51.825014
- Longitude
- -1.288816
- British National Grid easting
- 449,110
- British National Grid northing
- 214,282
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
- E00145164
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 017B · E01028489
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 017 · E02005937
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
Property
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 32, Benmead Road, Kidlington, OX5 2DB | 30 January 2026 | £415,000 |
| 32, Benmead Road, Kidlington, OX5 2DB | 9 September 2022 | £415,000 |
| 49, Benmead Road, Kidlington, OX5 2DB | 20 April 2022 | £540,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 157 m
North Kidlington Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
West Kidlington Primary and Nursery School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 705
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 304
- Other theft 70
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Public order 58
- Criminal damage and arson 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 57
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- OX5 2 residents
- 9,140
30 female, 27 male
Age bands in OX5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 27%
1,301 residents
777 residents
2,076 residents
2,408 residents
2,432 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX5 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
THE KEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
EXETER CLOSE, OXFORD ROAD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1AP
ODS code K84082
385 m
GOSFORD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
167 OXFORD ROAD, GOSFORD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2NS
ODS code K84045
1.2 km
ISLIP SURGERY
THE SURGERY, BLETCHINGDON ROAD, ISLIP, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2TQ
ODS code K84003
3.5 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
Tesco
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
The Black Horse
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.2 miles
The Black Horse
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.2 miles
Cherwell Court
BCT · Kidlington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 017B, 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
32,718 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
- 0
- 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
Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. North Kidlington Primary School is the nearest published school at 157 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
705 published events cover 12 months, averaging 58.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 304 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.