Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Woodcote Primary School is the nearest published school at 256 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG8 0QU
Woodcote & Rotherfield · South Oxfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame
- Postcode district
- RG8
- Postcode sector
- RG8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG8 0QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG8
- Postcode sector
- RG8 0
- Latitude
- 51.535451
- Longitude
- -1.065404
- British National Grid easting
- 464,919
- British National Grid northing
- 182,252
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- South Oxfordshire · E07000179
- Electoral ward
- Woodcote & Rotherfield · E05015559
- Parish or community
- E04012501
- Westminster constituency
- Henley and Thame · E14001280
- Output area
- E00146107
- Lower layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 018F · E01028686
- Middle layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 018 · E02005975
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 RG8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 256 m
Woodcote Primary School
Community school
- 339 m
Langtree School
Academy converter
- 610 m
The Oratory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 125
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Shoplifting 17
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Other theft 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- RG8 0 residents
- 5,816
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in RG8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
1,034 residents
602 residents
1,006 residents
1,810 residents
1,525 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG8 0 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+
- 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
1
within 5 km
GORING & WOODCOTE MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, WAYSIDE GREEN, WOODCOTE, READING, RG8 0PR
ODS code K84071
813 m
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
Langtree School
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.1 miles
Langtree School
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
Tidmore Lane
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
Tidmore Lane
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
Langtree School
BCT · Woodcote
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Oxfordshire 018F, 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
27,914 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
125 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 57 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.