West Oxfordshire

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• Today: 10° / 6° · 23% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:07Sunset 16:31

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Oxford St Ebbes, United Kingdom

• 6.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

3 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: Witney · Thames Valley

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

131 reported road collisions (2025)

46 killed or seriously injured · 178 casualties · 11.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

13 food businesses within 2 miles

• 11 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Finstock (2.7 km)
• 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£416,123 average▼ 2.3% YoY

Across West Oxfordshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,305 average monthly rent▲ 1.8% YoY

• 1 bed £954
• 2 bed £1,208
• 3 bed £1,518

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

9.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.9 times median annual pay (10.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,543 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 173.7p · Asda (10.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 198.7p · Asda (10.8 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Old Swan & Minster Mill Hotel Car Park (5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches5
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

114,236 residents in West Oxfordshire · 160/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,000
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,341
• Net moves+659

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 270 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,567 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (33% of 53,980)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

65 schools · 18,635 pupils

49 primary · 7 secondary · 9 other

Ofsted: 27 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (96%)

58 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Oxfordshire

672 CQC-registered services

• Care homes149
• GP practices107
• Dentists167
• Homecare agencies173
• Hospitals & hospices16

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Oxfordshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 59 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

315 applications decided

96.5% granted · 304 granted, 11 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Liberal Democrat / Labour / Green coalition

• Lab 8
• Con 17
• LD 19
• Grn 4
• Ref 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,635 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

27 jobs advertised · £32,829 avg

e.g. Technical Support Specialist, Experienced Commercial Cleaners Needed – Office Sites, IT Systems Engineer

Source: Adzuna

£767 median full-time weekly pay

1.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,992 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 56,152 certificates

9.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 83 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Oxfordshire): 66.6 women · 65.4 men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.9
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.9
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Witney:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks324 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Stop taxing Longer Separation Allowance on British armed forces285 local signatures · 22,219 nationwide
• Stop plans to use MoD sites for asylum seekers without full local consultation278 local signatures · 23,862 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND249 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Review discharge of mental health patients197 local signatures · 14,649 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Finstock · 1.9 km

  Finstock is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England.

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  Wychwood · 2.0 km

  Wychwood or Wychwood Forest is a 501.7-hectare (1,240-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Witney in Oxfordshire. It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, and an area of 263.4 he…

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  Wilcote · 2.4 km

  Wilcote is a hamlet in the civil parish of North Leigh, in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) north of Witney.

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  Finstock railway station · 2.8 km

  Finstock railway station serves the village of Finstock and the hamlet of Fawler in Oxfordshire, England. It is some distance from Finstock itself, being situated to the north-east of Charlbury Road, which crosses the…

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  Leafield · 2.9 km

  Leafield is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Langley, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Leafield village. The 2011 Census reco…

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  Hailey, Oxfordshire · 3.1 km

  Hailey is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) north of Witney, Oxfordshire. The village comprises three neighbourhoods: Middletown on the main road between Witney and Charlbury, Poffley End on the minor ro…

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