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Charlbury

Charlbury is a village in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of around 2,830. There are 2 restaurants & cafés, 17 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Charlbury, 0.8 km away. There were around 9 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Charlbury area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the West Oxfordshire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 114,236 residents at roughly 160 people per km².

Council
West Oxfordshire
County
Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney
Police force
Thames Valley
73/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 9th of 294 English council areas — better than 97% of them.

Low crime94
Home affordability30
Affordable rents37
Good schools87
Life expectancy93
Low deprivation91
Employment96
Low council tax18

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

10°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 10° / 7° · 37% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:05Sunset 16:33

9h 27m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Oxford St Ebbes, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

14 reported · August 2026▲ 8% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour4
  • Violence & sexual offences4
  • Other theft3
  • Criminal damage & arson2

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Chipping Norton · Thames Valley

Local policing priorities

  • Vehicle related anti-social behaviour – No specific location at this time. Youth related anti-social behaviour- Back Alley area.
  • Stores within the town centre seeing increase in shop lifting

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

23 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 20 rated 4–5 ★ (20 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Charlbury (0.5 km)
  • 17 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Charlbury (0.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£416,123 average▼ 2.3% YoY

Across West Oxfordshire · to 2026-08

Detached£654,257
Semi-detached£410,359
Terraced£335,599
Flat£210,354

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 173.9p · ESSO (11.9 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 201.9p · ESSO (11.9 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

3 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Crowne Plaza Heythrop Park Resort (6.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Swimming pools4
  • Sports pitches13
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

114,236 residents in West Oxfordshire · 160/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,567 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,711
B £1,997
C £2,282
D £2,567
E £3,137
F £3,708
G £4,278
H £5,134

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • Bartholomew SchoolOutstanding
  • Carterton Community CollegeGood
  • Burford School
  • Chipping Norton School
  • The Henry Box School
  • The Marlborough Church of England School
  • Wood Green School

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

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Charlbury Conservation Area)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 118 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

315 applications decided

96.5% granted · 304 granted, 11 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Sean Woodcock

Labour

Banbury

Recent votes:

  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 55: Value added tax (electric vehicle charging)
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 8: Capital gains tax (business asset disposal relief)

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat / Labour / Green coalition

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

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens5
  • Restaurants & cafés5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,635 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

34 jobs advertised · £39,636 avg

e.g. Office Manager, Commercial Cleaners, Senior Early Years Educator (Nursery Room Leader)

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

36% low-carbon electricity

Gas 62% · Wind 15% · Solar 9% · Biomass 7%

252 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

5 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in OX7

  • Chipping Norton Health Centre
  • Wychwood Surgery
  • The Charlbury Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Banbury:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Charlbury Museum · 0.0 km

    Charlbury Museum is a local museum in the town of Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England. The museum and collections are organized and run by the Charlbury Society, which was founded in 1949.

  • Charlbury · 0.1 km

    Charlbury is a town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about 6 miles (10 km) north of Witney in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the edge of Wychwood Forest and the Cotswolds. The…

  • Charlbury railway station · 0.5 km

    Charlbury railway station is a railway station serving the town of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England. This station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway. After almost 40 years as a single-pla…

  • Blenheim Farm · 0.7 km

    Blenheim Farm is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) nature reserve near Charlbury in Oxfordshire. It is owned and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

  • Fawler · 2.2 km

    Fawler is a hamlet and civil parish in the valley of the River Evenlode, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England. There are traces of a Roman villa at Oatlands Farm. The manor house was built…

  • Cornbury and Wychwood · 2.3 km

    Cornbury and Wychwood is a civil parish in West Oxfordshire. It includes the country estate of Cornbury Park and the ancient former Royal Forest of Wychwood, which covers several square miles between Cornbury Park, th…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Charlbury?
Charlbury is a town in Oxfordshire, England, in the West Oxfordshire local authority.
What is the population of Charlbury?
Charlbury has an approximate settlement population of 2,830.
How deprived is Charlbury?
The West Oxfordshire local authority, which includes Charlbury, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.