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Horspath

Horspath is a town or village in Oxfordshire, England, with 12 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Oxford, 7.4km away. It has around 2 restaurants and cafés. There were around 8 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 Horspath area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the South Oxfordshire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 149,082 residents at roughly 220 people per km².

Council
South Oxfordshire
County
Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley
Police force
Thames Valley
63/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 55th of 294 English council areas — better than 81% of them.

Low crime96
Home affordability29
Affordable rents45
Good schools15
Life expectancy93
Low deprivation97
Employment98
Low council tax13

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: 11° / 7° · 29% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:33

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Oxford St Ebbes, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.0% 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▲ 56% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences6
  • Public order4
  • Anti-social behaviour2
  • Criminal damage & arson1

3 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Wheatley and Chalgrove · Thames Valley

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social Behaviour (ASB) in Wheatley High Street
  • Neighbourhood Crime (Theft from Motor Vehicles)

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

Road safety

142 reported road collisions (2025)

29 killed or seriously injured · 175 casualties · 9.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

192 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 166 rated 4–5 ★ (149 top)
  • 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Oxford (6.8 km)
  • 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Oxford (6.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£471,427 average▲ 2.2% YoY

Across South Oxfordshire · to 2026-08

Detached£770,493
Semi-detached£451,346
Terraced£372,708
Flat£235,476

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,402 average monthly rent▲ 3.5% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,042
  • 2 bed £1,292
  • 3 bed £1,615

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

Affordability

10.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.0 times median annual pay (10.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,943 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 · Asda (11.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 196.9p · Asda (4 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

69 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: BMW Horsepath Road (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Gyms1
  • Swimming pools6
  • Sports pitches36

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

149,082 residents in South Oxfordshire · 220/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,385
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,362
  • Net moves+2,023

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 287 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,598 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 67,120)

A £1,732
B £2,020
C £2,309
D £2,598
E £3,175
F £3,752
G £4,329
H £5,195

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

Schools

85 schools · 25,829 pupils

57 primary · 9 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 22 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Gillotts SchoolOutstanding
  • Langtree SchoolGood
  • Lord Williams's SchoolGood
  • Maiden Erlegh Chiltern EdgeGood
  • Didcot Girls' School
  • Icknield Community College
  • St Birinus School
  • Wallingford School
  • Wheatley Park School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South 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

  • Within the Green Belt
  • 20 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

304 applications decided

96.1% granted · 292 granted, 12 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Freddie van Mierlo

Liberal Democrat

Henley and Thame

Recent votes:

  • AyeOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading
  • AyeNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 12
  • AyeNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 7

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Lab 3
  • Con 1
  • LD 20
  • Grn 8
  • Oth 4

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens2
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

8,790 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

24 jobs advertised · £41,681 avg

e.g. MSP Field Engineer, IT Service Engineer, Technical Support Engineer

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£935 median full-time weekly pay

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

£35,652 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 67,091 certificates

9.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

32% low-carbon electricity

Gas 60% · Solar 14% · Wind 9% · Imports 9%

246 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 86.1 yrs women · 82.2 yrs men

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

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.8
  • Feeling worthwhile7.9
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

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

Health services

1 GP surgery · 1 pharmacy in OX33

  • Morland House Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Henley and Thame:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Horspath · 0.0 km

    Horspath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) east of the centre of Oxford, England. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,378.

  • Horspath Halt railway station · 0.1 km

    Horspath Halt was an intermediate station on the Wycombe Railway which served the Oxfordshire village of Horspath from 1908 to 1915, and then from 1933 to 1963. The opening of the halt was part of an attempt by the Gr…

  • Oxford City Athletic Club · 0.9 km

    The Oxford City Athletic Club is an athletics club in Oxford, England.

  • Bullingdon Hundred · 1.2 km

    Bullingdon was a hundred in the county of Oxfordshire, covering an area to the east of Oxford. It took its name from the hamlet of Bullingdon Green, in the parish of Horspath, where the hundred court originally met.

  • Shotover · 1.3 km

    Shotover is a hill and forest in the civil parish of Forest Hill with Shotover, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The hill is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Oxford. Its highest point…

  • Heart Oxfordshire · 1.4 km

    Heart Oxfordshire was an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Oxfordshire on 102.6 MHz FM from the Oxford transmitting station and 97.4 MHz FM from a relay station at Farthinghoe, near Banbury.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Horspath?
Horspath is a town in Oxfordshire, England, in the South Oxfordshire local authority.
How deprived is Horspath?
The South Oxfordshire local authority, which includes Horspath, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.