Springfield Road Kidlington, Cherwell

35 addresses across 2 postcodes (OX5), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6801340.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £407,500 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cherwell cost £355,981 in August 2026 (+2.6% on a year); private rents averaged £1,316 a month.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 6, D: 9, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Oxford Parkway, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 61 to 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gosford Hill Medical Centre, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 54 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20251£407,500£407,500£407,500
20221£365,000£365,000£365,000
20191£325,000£325,000£325,000
20181£417,500£417,500£417,500
20171£435,000£435,000£435,000
20142£318,000£316,000£320,000
20131£250,000£250,000£250,000
20121£250,000£250,000£250,000
20112£206,500£193,000£220,000
20102£228,748£207,500£249,995
20093£195,000£182,000£195,000
20083£190,000£74,400£275,000
All 29 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Nov 20022 OX5 2JESemi-detached£100,000
24 Mar 20002 OX5 2JESemi-detached£137,000
21 Aug 19972 OX5 2JESemi-detached£90,500
4 Nov 20193 OX5 2JESemi-detached£325,000
14 Mar 20088 OX5 2JESemi-detached£275,000
20 Mar 201811 OX5 2JESemi-detached£417,500
24 Jul 199612 OX5 2JETerraced£60,000
19 Sep 201415 OX5 2JESemi-detached£316,000
12 Aug 202516 OX5 2JESemi-detached£407,500
4 Dec 199816 OX5 2JESemi-detached£92,500
31 May 201317 OX5 2JESemi-detached£250,000
28 Jun 201719 OX5 2JESemi-detached£435,000
14 Jul 200619 OX5 2JESemi-detached£250,000
28 Feb 199719 OX5 2JESemi-detached£87,500
12 Apr 201220 OX5 2JESemi-detached£250,000
21 Dec 201120 OX5 2JESemi-detached£193,000
24 Sep 201021 OX5 2JESemi-detached£249,995
25 Nov 201124 OX5 2JESemi-detached£220,000
14 Oct 202226 OX5 2JESemi-detached£365,000
20 Oct 201426 OX5 2JESemi-detached£320,000
30 Apr 199726 OX5 2JETerraced£32,500
13 Aug 199927 OX5 2JESemi-detached£129,950
22 May 200930 OX5 2JESemi-detached£195,000
24 Oct 200830 OX5 2JESemi-detached£190,000
9 Oct 200931 OX5 2JESemi-detached£195,000
18 Aug 200631 OX5 2JESemi-detached£240,000
13 Aug 201031A OX5 2JESemi-detached£207,500
30 Jan 200931A OX5 2JESemi-detached£182,000
2 Jun 200831A OX5 2JESemi-detached£74,400

House prices and rents in Cherwell

A typical home in Cherwell cost £355,981 in August 2026, 2.6% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£571,986
Semi-detached£355,133
Terraced£294,660
Flat or maisonette£172,531
Bought by a first-time buyer£305,382

Private renters in Cherwell paid £1,316 a month on average in September 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£984
Two bedrooms£1,229
Three bedrooms£1,485
Four or more bedrooms£2,224

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (14); House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1950-1966 (13); 1930-1949 (2); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,085 kWh of it on average in 2024, 9% less than the district's 12,215 kWh, and 3,036 kWh of electricity, 21% less than the district's 3,858 kWh. There are gas meters for about 95% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OX5 2JE332,661 kWh 3111,199 kWh
OX5 2JA312,020 kWh 309,478 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is OX5.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Cherwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (31% of about 1,290 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 2 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
The Flit Cherwell 14/00786/F Solar farm 10.5 MW Operational Mar 2015 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cassington AD (Waste AD) West Oxfordshire 08/01781/CM Anaerobic digestion 2.1 MW Operational Sep 2010 4.1 km (2.6 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OX5 2JEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
OX5 2JAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 35 addresses are between 61 m and 62 m above sea level (62 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
OX5 2JA100%100%100%0%
OX5 2JE100%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 stationsOxford Parkway 655,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Islip 39,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Hanborough 376,000 journeys in 2024–256.7 km (4.2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Springfield Road Kidlington90 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Car parksOxford Parkway Park and Ride2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN62.9 km (39 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Gosford Hill Medical Centre Good May 2024560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kidlington Pharmacy890 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oxford Road (Dental Surgery)530 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalJohn Radcliffe Hospital Requires improvement Sep 20267.4 km (4.6 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gosford Lodge Good Dec 2019220 m
Police stationThames Valley Police760 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM870 m (0.5 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
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²270 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha170 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,430 m²200 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Vicarage, a listed building (Grade II*), 690 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 38 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The VicarageListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Dovecote Approximately 10 Metres North North East of the Old Rectory and Dovecote EndListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) north
Blenheim PalaceWorld Heritage Site7.3 km (4.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stratfield BrakeWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Begbroke HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Hampton GorseWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Peartree HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Madam Hindes's SpinneyWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) north
Thrupp WideLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west

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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 553335

2 of the street's 35 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 Cherwell: see them on the Cherwell page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Edward Feild Primary SchoolPrimary4–11380 m No published inspection None published
Gosford Hill SchoolSecondary11–18430 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.1 (45.3 in 2025 and 45.2 in 2024); 44% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 13% AAB or better; progress below average
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington Roman CatholicPrimary2–11620 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
West Kidlington Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
North Kidlington Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 380 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Robin Preschool OX5 2LG Sessional day care 64 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 4 380 m
Skips OX5 1EA Sessional day care 30 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Small Steps Day Nursery OX5 1AB Full day care 29 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Small Steps Pre-School OX5 2DA Full day care 26 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 330 childminders and 104 home childcarers (nannies) in Oxfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Oxfordshire County Council OX5 2LGSchool/college/university360 m5 Very good5 Jun 2026
Edward Feild Primary (Breakfast & After School Clubs) OX5 2LGOther catering premises360 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Aramark @ Gosford Hill Secondary School OX5 2NTSchool/college/university360 mAwaiting inspection
Miller And Carter OX5 2PXOther catering premises370 m5 Very good30 Jan 2025
Six Bells OX5 2EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary13 Jan 2026

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.

54 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Drugs8
Vehicle crime6
Other theft4
Anti-social behaviour2
Public order2
Burglary2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Queens Avenue (16); On or near Waverley Avenue (11); On or near Cherwell Avenue (9); On or near Prestidge Place (6); On or near Orchard Way (4).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 636 residents in 265 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 age4540
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 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

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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

Evans Court · Orchard Way · Edinburgh Drive · Waverley Avenue · Cherwell Avenue · Prestidge Place · Queens Avenue · Evans Lane · Lovelace Drive · Bicester Road · Kingsway Drive · Woodlands

All the streets in OX5 and across Cherwell.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.