Cox Avenue Bournemouth

67 addresses across 5 postcodes (BH9), about 450 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 3715601.

  • Sales: 74 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £510,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 21, E: 6).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bournemouth, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 15 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is James Fisher Medical Centre, about 320 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£510,000£510,000£510,000
20245£383,000£345,000£510,000
20231£370,000£370,000£370,000
20221£425,000£425,000£425,000
20214£367,000£295,000£389,000
20201£290,000£290,000£290,000
20195£361,000£212,500£426,000
20183£380,000£340,000£390,000
20171£382,500£382,500£382,500
20164£295,000£238,000£390,000
20152£352,500£345,000£360,000
20144£254,975£215,000£348,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 74)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Feb 202616 BH9 3LYTerraced£510,000
11 Oct 20245 BH9 3LYDetached£383,000
16 Sep 202456 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£350,000
6 Aug 202474 BH9 3LSTerraced£387,500
23 May 20249 BH9 3LYDetached£345,000
28 Mar 202410 BH9 3LYDetached£510,000
24 Nov 202316 BH9 3LYTerraced£495,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Jul 202361 BH9 3LZDetached£370,000
1 Aug 202220 BH9 3LYDetached£425,000
3 Dec 202159 BH9 3LZDetached£369,000
28 May 202147 BH9 3LZDetached£365,000
22 Jan 202154 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£295,000
5 Jan 202127 BH9 3LYDetached£389,000
4 Dec 202052 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£290,000
29 Nov 201946 BH9 3NADetached£426,000
24 Oct 201910 BH9 3LYDetached£361,000
8 Oct 201942 BH9 3NADetached£370,000
4 Oct 201948A BH9 3LSTerraced£212,500
19 Jul 201956 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£262,000
20 Nov 201844 BH9 3NADetached£340,000
14 Jun 201834 BH9 3NADetached£390,000
19 Feb 201818 BH9 3LYDetached£380,000
5 Oct 201745 BH9 3LZDetached£382,500
21 Oct 201647 BH9 3LZDetached£335,000
30 Jun 201646 BH9 3NADetached£390,000
15 Apr 201650 BH9 3LSTerraced£255,000
1 Apr 201662 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£238,000
30 Nov 201532 BH9 3LYDetached£345,000
8 Jan 201545 BH9 3LZDetached£360,000
12 Nov 201450 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£230,000
19 Sep 201421 BH9 3LYDetached£348,000
16 Apr 201448 BH9 3LSTerraced£215,000
3 Jan 201418 BH9 3LYDetached£279,950
20 Feb 201332 BH9 3LYDetached£240,000
19 Oct 201223 BH9 3LYDetached£236,000
14 Nov 201164 BH9 3LSTerraced£210,000
26 Aug 200948 BH9 3LSTerraced£184,000
30 Jul 200910 BH9 3LYDetached£174,999
28 Apr 200916 BH9 3LYTerraced£175,000
1 Sep 200851 BH9 3LZDetached£228,500
13 Sep 200748 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£202,000
16 Aug 200742 BH9 3NADetached£250,000
11 Apr 200728 BH9 3LYDetached£270,000
3 Nov 200650 BH9 3LSSemi-detached£185,000
15 Sep 200633 BH9 3LZDetached£207,000
5 Jul 20063 BH9 3LYDetached£210,000
22 Mar 200627 BH9 3LYDetached£250,000
13 Jan 200670 BH9 3LSTerraced£202,000
24 Nov 200545 BH9 3LZDetached£213,000
2 Sep 200517 BH9 3LYDetached£207,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, detached (14); Bungalow, detached (12); Bungalow, semi-detached (5). Built: 1930-1949 (10); 1950-1966 (8); 1976-1982 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (25); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2026-27: Band D £2,436 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,624£1,894£2,165£2,436£2,977£3,518£4,059£4,871

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (43% of about 1,950 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 August 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 67 addresses are between 13 m and 15 m above sea level (14 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BH9 3JU100%100%100%0%
BH9 3LS100%100%100%0%
BH9 3LY100%100%100%0%
BH9 3LZ100%100%100%0%
BH9 3NA100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBournemouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Pokesdown 377,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Branksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Granby Road Muscliffe80 m
Bus or coach stationBournemouth University Talbot Heath3 km (1.9 miles)
Ferry terminalTuckton Tea Gardens Ferry Landing6.4 km (3.9 miles)
Car parksCranmer Road Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS91.3 km (57 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest James Fisher Medical Centre320 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy340 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tolpuddle Dental Practice340 m
HospitalBournemouth Nuffield Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationWinton Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda Bournemouth - Westway PFS Cashzone670 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 20 ha160 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Muscliffe Park 6.2 ha360 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,440 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The ArboretumWood530 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Vernold's CoppiceWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Berry HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Fernheath ValleyValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) west
Longham LakesLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-west
Boscombe Pier WestBeach4.8 km (3 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74100
55 to 59100
Under 55656767

2 of the street's 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Epiphany School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11300 m No published inspection
Muscliff Primary SchoolPrimary5–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bournemouth School for GirlsSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bournemouth SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Winton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Hill View Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Queen's Park AcademyPrimary7–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Queen's Park Infant AcademyPrimary4–71.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Moordown St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The Bishop of Winchester Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Kingfisher Barn Visitor Centre BH9 3NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good5 Oct 2020
Epiphany C of E Primary School BH9 3PESchool/college/university270 m5 Very good8 Jun 2026
Grump's Grub BH9 3LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good8 May 2025
Castle Lane West Express BH9 3JURetailers - other320 mAwaiting inspection
Noor Takeaway BH9 3JUTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good28 Aug 2024
Taj Mahal Express BH9 3JUTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good16 Feb 2026
Holy Epiphany Church Hall BH9 3JTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good24 Feb 2020
Epiphany Pre School BH9 3JTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024
Turkish Grill BH9 3JURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Bourne Mart BH9 3JURetailers - other330 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Tesco Express [5027] BH9 3RERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Rowlands Pharmacy BH9 3RERetailers - other340 mExempt
Muscliff Nursing Home BH9 3REHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Other theft3
Public order3
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cox Avenue (5); On or near Sandringham Gardens (5); On or near Cheddington Road (3); On or near Knowlton Gardens (2); On or near Sandringham Close (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,278 residents in 517 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)88%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Cox Close · Wynford Road · Moreton Road · Sturminster Road · Edifred Road · Cheddington Road · Cerne Close · Tincleton Gardens · Iwerne Close · Granby Road · Knowlton Gardens · Sandringham Close

All the streets in BH9 and across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.