Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Windrush Valley School is the nearest published school at 361 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX7 6AU
Ascott and Shipton · West Oxfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chipping Norton
- Ward
- Ascott and Shipton
- Local authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney
- Postcode district
- OX7
- Postcode sector
- OX7 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX7 6AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX7
- Postcode sector
- OX7 6
- Latitude
- 51.864050
- Longitude
- -1.567221
- British National Grid easting
- 429,897
- British National Grid northing
- 218,473
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Oxfordshire · E07000181
- Electoral ward
- Ascott and Shipton · E05006628
- Parish or community
- E04008257
- Westminster constituency
- Witney · E14001591
- Output area
- E00146497
- Lower layer super output area
- West Oxfordshire 003A · E01028763
- Middle layer super output area
- West Oxfordshire 003 · E02005995
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 OX7
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Maple Way, Ascott Under Wychwood, Chipping Norton, OX7 6AU | 21 August 2020 | £248,000 |
| 10, Maple Way, Ascott Under Wychwood, Chipping Norton, OX7 6AU | 31 October 2014 | £185,000 |
| 12, Maple Way, Ascott Under Wychwood, Chipping Norton, OX7 6AU | 28 March 2014 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 361 m
Windrush Valley School
Other independent school
- 2.6 km
Wychwood Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.6 km
Leafield Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 35
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Drugs 4
- Other theft 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- OX7 6 residents
- 6,697
24 female, 23 male
Age bands in OX7 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27%
1,062 residents
648 residents
1,156 residents
2,018 residents
1,802 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX7 6 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+
- 72.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 72.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 72.7%
- 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
1
within 5 km
WYCHWOOD SURGERY
MEADOW LANE, SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD, CHIPPING NORTON, OX7 6BW
ODS code K84046
2.1 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
Dawls Close
BCT · Ascott-under-Wychwood
- 0.1 miles
Dawls Close
BCT · Ascott-under-Wychwood
- 0.1 miles
Church View
BCT · Ascott-under-Wychwood
- 0.1 miles
Church View
BCT · Ascott-under-Wychwood
- 0.2 miles
The Green
BCT · Ascott-under-Wychwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Oxfordshire 003A, 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
27,035 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Recorded crime
35 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.