Onslow Drive Thame, South Oxfordshire

49 addresses across 4 postcodes (OX9), about 260 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36201160.

  • Sales: 76 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £420,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 30 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 20, E: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in South Oxfordshire costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Haddenham and Thame Parkway, about 3 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 630 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 69 to 75 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 49 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Rycote Group, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 27 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£420,000£420,000£420,000
20242£462,500£450,000£475,000
20222£442,500£435,000£450,000
20213£380,000£340,000£475,000
20184£343,000£300,000£451,200
20173£325,000£325,000£415,000
20163£385,000£365,000£415,000
20151£325,000£325,000£325,000
20141£315,000£315,000£315,000
20131£302,500£302,500£302,500
20122£289,000£238,000£340,000
20102£312,500£300,000£325,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 76)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 May 20264 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£420,000
22 Jul 202420 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£475,000
3 May 202416 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£450,000
2 Dec 20222 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£450,000
9 Mar 202220 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£435,000
25 Jun 202124 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£380,000
14 Jun 202139 OX9 3YYTerraced£340,000
17 Mar 202154 OX9 3YYDetached£475,000
28 Sep 201838 OX9 3YYDetached£451,200
21 Sep 201833 OX9 3YYTerraced£320,000
29 Jun 20186 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£366,000
12 Jan 20187 OX9 3YXTerraced£300,000
15 Dec 201710 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£325,000
12 May 201723 OX9 3YUSemi-detached£415,000
12 Jan 201739 OX9 3YYTerraced£325,000
8 Jun 201628 OX9 3YYDetached£415,000
19 May 201618 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£365,000
30 Mar 201620 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£385,000
21 Jan 20152 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£325,000
14 Feb 201434 OX9 3YYDetached£315,000
5 Jul 201315 OX9 3YUSemi-detached£302,500
11 May 20128 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£238,000
4 Apr 201246 OX9 3YYDetached£340,000
8 Oct 201048 OX9 3YYDetached£325,000
12 Feb 201038 OX9 3YYDetached£300,000
16 Jan 20099 OX9 3YXTerraced£205,000
10 Dec 200746 OX9 3YYDetached£336,500
8 Aug 200724 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£277,000
6 Jul 20072 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£289,000
15 Nov 20067 OX9 3YXTerraced£223,500
27 Sep 200632 OX9 3YYDetached£285,000
12 May 20065 OX9 3YXTerraced£196,500
19 Nov 200439 OX9 3YYTerraced£196,500
27 May 200425 OX9 3YUTerraced£184,000
6 Feb 20049 OX9 3YXTerraced£171,000
12 Dec 200327 OX9 3YUTerraced£183,000
23 Apr 200354 OX9 3YYDetached£250,000
30 Sep 200248 OX9 3YYDetached£217,000
13 Sep 200231 OX9 3YUSemi-detached£175,000
9 Aug 200218 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£199,950
8 Jul 20022 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£207,000
12 Apr 200229 OX9 3YUTerraced£137,500
12 Apr 200229 OX9 3YUTerraced£68,750Leasehold.
19 Oct 20017 OX9 3YXTerraced£147,500
31 Jul 200130 OX9 3YYDetached£174,950
8 Mar 200141 OX9 3YYDetached£132,500
26 Jan 200118 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£144,950
30 Nov 200050 OX9 3YYSemi-detached£155,995
6 Jun 200017 OX9 3YUSemi-detached£139,000
5 May 200014 OX9 3YXSemi-detached£131,000

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

30 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13); House, detached (9); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1983-1990 (12); 1976-1982 (9); 1967-1975 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (24); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Oxfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,598 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,732£2,020£2,309£2,598£3,175£3,752£4,329£5,195

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 540 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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 49 addresses are between 69 m and 75 m above sea level (72 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
OX9 3YQ100%100%100%0%
OX9 3YU100%100%100%0%
OX9 3YX100%100%100%0%
OX9 3YY100%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 stationsHaddenham and Thame Parkway 889,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Princes Risborough 513,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Monks Risborough 21,000 journeys in 2024–259.5 km (5.9 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cromwell Ave East HaR Thame50 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thame Community Hospital Staff Car Park460 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN43.5 km (27 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Rycote Group460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thame Pharmacy470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Street Dental Clinic670 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalThame Community Hospital470 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWaddesdon Police Station12.7 km (7.9 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Haddenham Banks Parade Cashzone3.9 km (2.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²270 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,070 m²200 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha630 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site E of Moorend Lane, a scheduled monument, 420 m (0.3 miles) west. 114 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site E of Moorend LaneScheduled monument420 m (0.3 miles) west
16 and 16A, Upper High StreetListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) south-west
The Swan HotelListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) west
Gallup Poll GarfieldListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The Birdcage Public HouseListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) west
Thame ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long CovertWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Sydenham HurstWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Box ClumpWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Crosse's CovertWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Cop HillHill3.3 km (2 miles) north-west
Lenton's PondLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) north

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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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

Road and rail 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 trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 554849

1 of the street's 49 addresses is 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 South Oxfordshire: see them on the South Oxfordshire 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
Barley Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
John Hampden Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Thame Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lord Williams's SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2022, 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
Bay of Bengal OX9 3BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory5 Nov 2025
Meadowcroft OX9 3NQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Queensdown Nursery School OX9 3NQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 2023
Busy Bees Playgroup OX9 3DHSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jun 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Other crime3
Other theft3
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs2
Criminal damage and arson1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ormond Road (9); On or near Marston Road (4); On or near Cavendish Walk (3); On or near Grenville Way (3); On or near Pennington Place (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 650 residents in 257 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 age4340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • OX9 3YY: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • OX9 3YX: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • OX9 3YU: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • OX9 3YQ: 1 address of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Digby Close · Stuart Way · Overton Drive · Langdale Road · Marston Road · Onslow Drive · Grenville Way · Goffe Close · Dunbar Drive · Cavendish Walk · Weldon Way · Sedgemoor Drive

All the streets in OX9 and across South Oxfordshire.

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.