OX26 crime rate and statistics

The OX26 postcode district, in the OX (Oxford) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,375 street-crime records for OX26 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 62.3 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

2,375

Latest month (August 2026)

212

Year-on-year

+8.8%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 156
October 2025 180
November 2025 202
December 2025 233
January 2026 209
February 2026 188
March 2026 209
April 2026 181
May 2026 226
June 2026 187
July 2026 192
August 2026 212

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.

OX26

62.3

Thames Valley Police

78.4

2,375 records and 38,096 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 OX26 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 OX26

Published street-crime records in OX26, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of OX26: the centre 2,176, the east 335, the north-east 326, the north 173, the north-west 157, the south-east 101, the south-west 91, the west 87, the south 49.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of OX26's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and OX26'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 OX26 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore OX26 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for OX26 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,034
2022 2,422
2023 2,417
2024 2,279
2025 2,212
2026 (part year) 1,604

Is OX26 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for OX26 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in OX26 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

OX26's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (99.8%) and Metropolitan Police (0.2%).

Postcode sectors in OX26

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

Sector Street-crime records
OX26 1 551
OX26 2 384
OX26 3 237
OX26 4 267
OX26 5 35
OX26 6 901

Council area

OX26 is in the Cherwell council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 38,096 Census 2021 residents of OX26.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 46.6% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

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 OX26 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) £335,000 (282)
2025 £352,250 (590)
2024 £336,000 (510)
2023 £365,000 (532)
2022 £375,000 (773)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £485,000 (80) £341,750 (76) £298,250 (98) £232,500 (28)
2025 £487,500 (179) £364,000 (170) £290,666 (196) £195,000 (45)
2024 £500,000 (151) £342,250 (124) £300,000 (185) £177,500 (50)
2023 £495,000 (167) £365,000 (142) £307,000 (170) £210,000 (53)
2022 £500,000 (237) £366,975 (230) £310,000 (247) £183,000 (59)

Schools and colleges

16 open establishments with a postcode in OX26, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 16 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Brookside Primary School Primary Community school
Bure Park Primary School Primary Community school
Chesterton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Glory Farm Primary School Primary Academy converter
King's Meadow Primary School Primary Community school
Langford Village Community Primary School Primary Community school
Launton Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Longfields Primary and Nursery School Primary Community school
Southwold Primary School Primary Academy converter
St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bicester Primary Academy converter
The Bicester School Secondary Academy sponsor led
The Cooper School Secondary Academy converter
Whitelands Academy Secondary Free schools
Bardwell School – Academy special converter
Bruern Abbey 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
High16
Medium8
Low15
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 902 postcodes in OX26 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
Gigabit77.6%91.4%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.5%98.8%

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CrimeMapsUK. OX26 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 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/ox26/

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