Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Bicester School is the nearest published school at 555 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX6 8BL
Bicester West · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bicester West
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX6
- Postcode sector
- OX6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX6 8BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2000
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX6
- Postcode sector
- OX6 8
- Latitude
- 51.898717
- Longitude
- -1.168258
- British National Grid easting
- 457,325
- British National Grid northing
- 222,567
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Bicester West · E05010928
- Parish or community
- E04013332
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145051
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 014A · E01028466
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 014 · E02005934
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 OX6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 555 m
The Bicester School
Academy sponsor led
- 721 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bicester
Academy converter
- 751 m
St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,550
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 825
- Shoplifting 771
- Anti social behaviour 168
- Public order 163
- Other theft 157
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
MONTGOMERY HOUSE SURGERY
PIGGY LANE, BICESTER, OX26 6HT
ODS code K84038
756 m
BICESTER HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, COKER CLOSE, BICESTER, OX26 6AT
ODS code K84052
791 m
ALCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP
LANGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE, 9 NIGHTINGALE PLACE, BICESTER, OX26 6XX
ODS code K84613
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kingsmere
BCT · Kings End
- 0.1 miles
Kingsmere
BCT · Kings End
- 0.1 miles
Kings End Post Office
BCT · Kings End
- 0.1 miles
Kings End Post Office
BCT · Kings End
- 0.2 miles
Villiers Road
BCT · Kings End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 014A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,856 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
2,550 published events cover 12 months, averaging 212.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 825 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.