Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Gosford Hill School is the nearest published school at 287 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX5 2NW
Kidlington East · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Kidlington East
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX5
- Postcode sector
- OX5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX5 2NW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX5
- Postcode sector
- OX5 2
- Latitude
- 51.818822
- Longitude
- -1.278903
- British National Grid easting
- 449,800
- British National Grid northing
- 213,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Kidlington East · E05010932
- Parish or community
- E04008057
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145181
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 018A · E01028492
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 018 · E02005938
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
- 16
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 287 m
Gosford Hill School
Academy converter
- 313 m
Edward Feild Primary School
Academy converter
- 428 m
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 723
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 258
- Shoplifting 78
- Anti social behaviour 68
- Other theft 67
- Public order 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX5 2 residents
- 9,140
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
GOSFORD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
167 OXFORD ROAD, GOSFORD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2NS
ODS code K84045
392 m
THE KEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
EXETER CLOSE, OXFORD ROAD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1AP
ODS code K84082
774 m
ISLIP SURGERY
THE SURGERY, BLETCHINGDON ROAD, ISLIP, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2TQ
ODS code K84003
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Evans Court
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
Evans Court
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
Evans Lane
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
Springfield Road
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
Evans Lane
BCT · Kidlington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 018A, 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
30,359 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
723 published events cover 12 months, averaging 60.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 258 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.