Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Burford School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX8 4AL
Brize Norton and Shilton · West Oxfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney
- Postcode district
- OX8
- Postcode sector
- OX8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX8 4AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX8
- Postcode sector
- OX8 4
- Latitude
- 51.781784
- Longitude
- -1.628848
- British National Grid easting
- 425,700
- British National Grid northing
- 209,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Oxfordshire · E07000181
- Electoral ward
- Brize Norton and Shilton · E05009364
- Parish or community
- E04012216
- Westminster constituency
- Witney · E14001591
- Output area
- E00146520
- Lower layer super output area
- West Oxfordshire 012D · E01035255
- Middle layer super output area
- West Oxfordshire 012 · E02006004
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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.6 km
Burford School
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- 2.7 km
Carterton Community College
Community school
- 3.1 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Carterton
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 25
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Burglary 5
- Drugs 3
- Vehicle crime 3
- Other theft 2
GP practices
2
within 5 km
BURFORD SURGERY
59 SHEEP STREET, BURFORD, OX18 4LS
ODS code K84047
3.0 km
BROADSHIRES HEALTH CENTRE
BROADSHIRES WAY, CARTERTON, OX18 1JA
ODS code K84075
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
- 0.5 miles
Blue Cross
BCT · Burford
- 0.5 miles
Blue Cross
BCT · Burford
- 0.8 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Shilton
- 0.8 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Shilton
- 0.8 miles
Woodside Drive
BCT · Bradwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Oxfordshire 012D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,945 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
25 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.