Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Gosford Hill School is the nearest published school at 313 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX5 2NX
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 2NX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX5
- Postcode sector
- OX5 2
- Latitude
- 51.813460
- Longitude
- -1.278423
- British National Grid easting
- 449,839
- British National Grid northing
- 213,004
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Kidlington East · E05010932
- Parish or community
- E04008047
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145253
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 019C · E01028511
- 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
- 20
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 313 m
Gosford Hill School
Academy converter
- 352 m
Edward Feild Primary School
Academy converter
- 431 m
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 634
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 217
- Shoplifting 78
- Other theft 60
- Anti social behaviour 59
- Public order 50
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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km
GOSFORD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
167 OXFORD ROAD, GOSFORD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2NS
ODS code K84045
282 m
THE KEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
EXETER CLOSE, OXFORD ROAD, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1AP
ODS code K84082
1.2 km
ISLIP SURGERY
THE SURGERY, BLETCHINGDON ROAD, ISLIP, KIDLINGTON, OX5 2TQ
ODS code K84003
3.0 km
BANBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
172 BANBURY ROAD, OXFORD, OX2 7BT
ODS code K84021
4.4 km
SUMMERTOWN HEALTH CENTRE
160 BANBURY ROAD, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD, OX2 7BS
ODS code K84011
4.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gosford Hill
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.1 miles
Fairfax Road
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.2 miles
Gosford Hill
BCT · Kidlington
- 0.2 miles
Garden City
BCT · Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Garden City
BCT · Garden City
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 019C, 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
29,598 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
634 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 217 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.