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Oxted

Oxted is a town in Surrey, England, with a population of around 13,452. It has 1 school, 3 pharmacies, 2 supermarkets, and around 16 restaurants and cafés, along with 15 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Hurst Green, 0.7 km away. The average sold house price is around £681,593, and there were around 56 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 Oxted area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Tandridge area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 87,874 residents at roughly 354 people per km².

Council
Tandridge
County
Surrey
Constituency
East Surrey
Police force
Surrey
63/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 56th of 294 English council areas — better than 81% of them.

Low crime87
Home affordability7
Affordable rents11
Good schools95
Life expectancy86
Low deprivation80
Employment74
Low council tax14

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

9°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 12° / 8° · 60% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:56Sunset 16:30

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Greenwich - Fiveways Sidcup Rd A20, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.2 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.4% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

65 reported · August 2026▲ 81% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences17
  • Shoplifting15
  • Anti-social behaviour10
  • Vehicle crime5

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Oxted, Limpsfield & Hurst Green · Surrey

Local policing priorities

  • Shoplifting and retail crime. Increased theft from shops and concerns regarding threats/violence towards retail staff.

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

Road safety

261 reported road collisions (2025)

61 killed or seriously injured · 362 casualties · 29.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

85 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 73 rated 4–5 ★ (72 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Oxted (0.1 km)
  • 18 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Oxted (0.1 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£506,774 average▼ 1.1% YoY

Across Tandridge · to 2026-08

Detached£910,876
Semi-detached£491,655
Terraced£415,085
Flat£257,553

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,637 average monthly rent▲ 4.4% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,159
  • 2 bed £1,467
  • 3 bed £1,833

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

Affordability

13.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 13.2 times median annual pay (15.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,079 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: 158.9p · Esso (11 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (10.8 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

10 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 237 kW
  • Nearest: Roadchef Clacket Lane Westbound Services (3.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres4
  • Swimming pools37
  • Sports pitches44
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

87,874 residents in Tandridge · 354/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 60%
  • 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,599
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,180
  • Net moves+419

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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 236 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,595 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (24% of 38,200)

A £1,730
B £2,018
C £2,307
D £2,595
E £3,171
F £3,748
G £4,325
H £5,190

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

Schools

47 schools · 15,578 pupils

24 primary · 3 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 13 of 13 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • de Stafford SchoolGood
  • Oxted SchoolGood
  • Warlingham School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tandridge

Care & health services

1,403 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes393
  • GP practices201
  • Dentists359
  • Homecare agencies299
  • Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Surrey

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (STATION ROAD WEST OXTED)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 79 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

202 applications decided

80.7% granted · 163 granted, 39 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Claire Coutinho

Conservative

East Surrey

Recent votes:

  • NoBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas
  • NoBudget Resolution No.7: Increase in rate of banking surcharge for temporary period
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 3: Income tax (default, property and savings rates)

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Independent (minority)

  • Con 5
  • LD 12
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 25

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools5
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies2
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens22
  • Restaurants & cafés17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,460 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

61 jobs advertised · £40,251 avg

e.g. Alarm Engineer, Senior General Foreperson, Deputy General Manager

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£837 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£35,590 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 39,414 certificates

8.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

57% low-carbon electricity

Wind 44% · Gas 42% · Nuclear 8% · Biomass 5%

170 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.6 yrs women · 81.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Surrey): 66.4 women · 65.1 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.4
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Health services

1 GP surgery · 3 pharmacies in RH8

  • Oxted Health Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Surrey:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Oxted · 0.0 km

    Oxted is a town and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England. It is at the foot of the North Downs, 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Croydon, 9 miles (14 km) west of Sevenoaks, and 9 miles (14 km) north…

  • Oxted railway station · 0.1 km

    Oxted railway station is on the Oxted line in southern England, serving the commuter town of Oxted, Surrey. It is 20 miles 25 chains from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern who operate the majority of t…

  • Godstone Rural District · 0.4 km

    Godstone Rural District was a rural district in Surrey, England from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the south-east of the county.

  • Tandridge District · 0.4 km

    Tandridge is a local government district in east Surrey, England. Its council is based in Oxted, although the largest settlement is Caterham; other notable settlements include Warlingham, Godstone and Lingfield. In mi…

  • All Saints Church, Oxted · 0.4 km

    All Saints Church is a Catholic parish church in Oxted, Surrey. Building work on the church started in 1913 and was delayed by World War I. Aspects of the church interior were designed by Geoffrey Webb. It is situated…

  • Oxted School · 0.5 km

    Oxted School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the English town of Oxted, Surrey. It was opened in 1929 as the first mixed grammar school in Surrey and now has over 1,900 pupils aged 11–18.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Oxted?
Oxted is a town in Surrey, England, in the Tandridge local authority.
What is the population of Oxted?
Oxted has an approximate settlement population of 13,452.
How deprived is Oxted?
The Tandridge local authority, which includes Oxted, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.