OX3 crime rate and statistics

The OX3 postcode district, in the OX (Oxford) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 3,716 street-crime records for OX3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.1% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 77.9 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

3,716

Latest month (August 2026)

306

Year-on-year

-0.1%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 311
October 2025 298
November 2025 304
December 2025 263
January 2026 279
February 2026 322
March 2026 308
April 2026 277
May 2026 322
June 2026 333
July 2026 393
August 2026 306

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.

OX3

77.9

Thames Valley Police

78.4

3,716 records and 47,682 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 OX3 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 OX3

Published street-crime records in OX3, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of OX3: the south 1,421, the south-west 802, the west 607, the south-east 408, the east 288, the centre 101, the north-west 50, the north-east 19, the north 10.

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 OX3's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and OX3'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 OX3 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore OX3 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for OX3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,931
2022 3,780
2023 3,898
2024 3,710
2025 3,706
2026 (part year) 2,540

Is OX3 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for OX3 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in OX3 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

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

OX3's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (99.8%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%) and Northamptonshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in OX3

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

Sector Street-crime records
OX3 0 554
OX3 7 952
OX3 8 892
OX3 9 1,318

Council areas

OX3 is mostly in the Oxford council area, and also covers parts of the South Oxfordshire 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 47,682 Census 2021 residents of OX3.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 37.7% 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 OX3 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) £440,000 (217)
2025 £441,250 (448)
2024 £464,500 (388)
2023 £450,000 (360)
2022 £450,000 (437)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £660,000 (29) £473,500 (100) £418,000 (51) £285,000 (37)
2025 £710,000 (67) £482,500 (192) £411,500 (98) £282,500 (91)
2024 £785,000 (66) £504,500 (175) £406,000 (75) £275,000 (72)
2023 £781,250 (60) £500,000 (165) £400,000 (65) £276,500 (70)
2022 £755,250 (70) £495,000 (187) £437,500 (84) £305,000 (96)

Schools and colleges

21 open establishments with a postcode in OX3, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 21 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Ruskin College 16 plus Further education
Headington Quarry Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Slade Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Barton Park Primary School Primary Free schools
Bayards Hill School Primary Academy sponsor led
Beckley Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
New Marston Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Sandhills Community Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Oxford Primary Voluntary controlled school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Oxford Primary Voluntary aided school
St Michael's CofE Primary School, Oxford City Primary Voluntary aided school
St Nicholas' Primary and Nursery School Primary Community school
Windmill Primary School Primary Community school
Wood Farm Primary School Primary Community school
Cheney School Secondary Academy converter
Endeavour Academy, Oxford – Academy special sponsor led
Headington School Oxford – Other independent school
Meadowbrook College – Academy alternative provision converter
Oxford Brookes University – Higher education institutions
Oxford Montessori Schools – Other independent school
Woodeaton Manor School – Academy special sponsor led

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
High13
Medium6
Low18
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 954 postcodes in OX3 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
Gigabit46.3%83.5%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)93.0%98.0%

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CrimeMapsUK. OX3 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/ox3/

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