Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 2 secondary schools. Burford School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX8 4JS
Alvescot and Filkins · West Oxfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alvescot and Filkins
- Local authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney
- Postcode district
- OX8
- Postcode sector
- OX8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX8 4JS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX8
- Postcode sector
- OX8 4
- Latitude
- 51.780990
- Longitude
- -1.663644
- British National Grid easting
- 423,300
- British National Grid northing
- 209,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Oxfordshire · E07000181
- Electoral ward
- Alvescot and Filkins · E05006627
- Parish or community
- E04008298
- Westminster constituency
- Witney · E14001591
- Output area
- E00146491
- Lower layer super output area
- West Oxfordshire 012A · E01028762
- 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
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.9 km
Burford School
Academy converter
- 3.6 km
Burford Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.7 km
Carterton Community College
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 9
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Drugs 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Other theft 1
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
BURFORD SURGERY
59 SHEEP STREET, BURFORD, OX18 4LS
ODS code K84047
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Main Car Park
BCT · Cotswold Wildlife Park
- 0.7 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Bradwell
- 0.8 miles
Main Entrance Gate
BCT · Cotswold Wildlife Park
- 0.8 miles
Woodside Drive
BCT · Bradwell
- 1.8 miles
Burford School
BCT · Burford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Oxfordshire 012A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,938 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.