OX2 crime rate and statistics

The OX2 postcode district, in the OX (Oxford) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,522 street-crime records for OX2 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 60.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 78.4 for Thames Valley Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

2,522

Latest month (August 2026)

192

Year-on-year

+7.4%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 241
October 2025 223
November 2025 224
December 2025 185
January 2026 194
February 2026 175
March 2026 195
April 2026 201
May 2026 226
June 2026 223
July 2026 243
August 2026 192

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

OX2

60.9

Thames Valley Police

78.4

2,522 records and 41,397 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of OX2 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in OX2

Published street-crime records in OX2, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of OX2: the north-east 871, the east 828, the south-east 501, the south 319, the north 119, the south-west 51, the west 12.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of OX2's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and OX2's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of OX2 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore OX2 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for OX2 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,650
2022 2,438
2023 2,368
2024 2,359
2025 2,421
2026 (part year) 1,649

Is OX2 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for OX2 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in OX2 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

OX2's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (99.8%) and Metropolitan Police (0.2%).

Postcode sectors in OX2

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
OX2 0 405
OX2 6 654
OX2 7 511
OX2 8 567
OX2 9 385

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 41,397 Census 2021 residents of OX2.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 80.0% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About OX2 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £544,500 (246)
2025 £615,000 (543)
2024 £600,000 (468)
2023 £623,500 (383)
2022 £565,000 (545)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £820,000 (56) £640,000 (59) £560,000 (56) £340,000 (75)
2025 £1,005,000 (123) £598,500 (158) £650,000 (121) £371,250 (141)
2024 £920,000 (106) £590,000 (117) £700,000 (123) £388,750 (122)
2023 £925,000 (81) £700,000 (105) £713,500 (96) £375,000 (101)
2022 £967,500 (106) £778,000 (121) £675,000 (127) £349,000 (191)

Schools and colleges

20 open establishments with a postcode in OX2, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 20 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Botley School Primary Academy sponsor led
Cumnor Church of England School (Voluntary Controlled) Primary Voluntary controlled school
Cutteslowe Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
North Hinksey Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
St Aloysius' Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Barnabas' Church of England Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Philip and James' Church of England Aided Primary School Oxford Primary Voluntary aided school
West Oxford Community Primary School Primary Community school
Wolvercote Primary School Primary Academy converter
Matthew Arnold School Secondary Academy converter
The Cherwell School Secondary Academy converter
The Swan School Secondary Free schools
d'Overbroeck's – Other independent school
Dragon School – Other independent school
Northern House Academy – Academy special converter
Oxford High School GDST – Other independent school
St Clare's, Oxford – Other independent school
St Edward's School – Other independent school
Summer Fields School – Other independent school
Wychwood School – Other independent school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High104
Medium13
Low58
Very low1

Broadband

Share of the 1,010 postcodes in OX2 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit44.8%75.9%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)92.8%98.3%

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CrimeMapsUK. OX2 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/ox2/

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