Map of the OX postcode area
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Overview
This page brings together mapped and statistical information for the OX postcode area, also known as the Oxford postal area.
The OX postcode area covers Oxford and nearby parts of South East England.
The postcode area borders the following neighbouring postcode areas: CV - Coventry, SN - Swindon, GL - Gloucester, NN - Northampton, RG - Reading, MK - Milton Keynes and HP - Hemel Hempstead and is located inland.
The postcode area falls within the following counties: Oxfordshire (97.14%), Northamptonshire (1.62%), Warwickshire (0.52%), Buckinghamshire (0.39%), Gloucestershire (0.26%), Berkshire (0.08%).
Quick facts
| Width east to west | 37.79 mi |
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| Height north to south | 46.28 mi |
| Area | 829.14 mi² |
| Maximum width | 46.39 mi |
| Perimeter | 246.45 mi |
| Postcode districts | 26 |
| Postcode sectors | 119 |
| Post towns | 17 |
| Postcodes | 19,990 |
| Population | 612,827 |
The OX postcode area has a population of 612,827 and covers 2,392,888 hectares. Roughly 0.94% of the population of Great Britain lives here.
Post towns and postcode districts
Where is the OX postcode area?
How built up is the postcode area?
This compares building footprint coverage against the total land area across each postcode district. The least urban district is OX49 and the most urban is OX16.
| Postcode district | Total area (m²) | Footprint area (m²) | Built percentage |
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| OX49 | 60,315,149 | 392,646 | 0.65% |
| OX27 | 101,741,228 | 723,159 | 0.71% |
| OX7 | 289,469,041 | 2,128,792 | 0.74% |
| OX20 | 49,083,730 | 385,290 | 0.78% |
| OX44 | 78,574,855 | 661,585 | 0.84% |
| OX17 | 190,776,299 | 1,741,524 | 0.91% |
| OX15 | 189,250,018 | 1,830,980 | 0.97% |
| OX12 | 175,005,068 | 1,842,075 | 1.05% |
| OX33 | 50,089,490 | 566,265 | 1.13% |
| OX18 | 164,876,816 | 1,910,304 | 1.16% |
| OX29 | 183,122,987 | 2,248,505 | 1.23% |
| OX25 | 115,443,587 | 1,457,357 | 1.26% |
| OX13 | 89,780,893 | 1,245,060 | 1.39% |
| OX39 | 27,826,816 | 418,786 | 1.50% |
| OX10 | 122,388,236 | 1,871,428 | 1.53% |
| OX9 | 65,195,596 | 1,004,412 | 1.54% |
| OX5 | 91,896,435 | 1,468,103 | 1.60% |
| OX11 | 84,938,871 | 2,480,989 | 2.92% |
| OX2 | 50,641,165 | 1,948,938 | 3.85% |
| OX14 | 66,857,267 | 2,689,067 | 4.02% |
| OX3 | 41,091,781 | 1,747,560 | 4.25% |
| OX1 | 23,899,234 | 1,217,599 | 5.09% |
| OX26 | 32,187,397 | 1,984,062 | 6.16% |
| OX4 | 20,274,045 | 2,550,439 | 12.58% |
| OX28 | 8,928,141 | 1,169,435 | 13.10% |
| OX16 | 19,227,225 | 2,596,057 | 13.50% |
| Total | 2,392,881,370 | 40,280,417 | 1.68% |
OX Postal Area
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The letters OX represent the Oxford postcode area. The area has 26 postcode districts divided between 17 post towns. 97% of all postcodes are within the county of Oxfordshire which can be abbreviated to Oxon when addressing mail.
The district OX27 in the Bicester Post town has 16% of postcodes within Buckinghamshire or Bucks.
Post Office Headquarters
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The Head Post Office for the area is located at 102/104 St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1AA. The post office is an imposing gothic arched Victorian building built in 1878.
The building looks more like a town hall or a cathedral than a post office with its carved granite columns and elaborate coats of arms.
Geographical Information
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The perimeter of the OX postcode area measures 246.5 Miles and has an area of 922.5 square miles. It is 46 miles long at its widest point.
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The postcode is located between Coventry and London in the South East of England
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The area has roughly 20,000 postcode units.
History of Oxford Postcode
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The Oxford postcode was introduced in around 1972 after a local newspaper campaign educating residents of the importance of using the postcode.
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A cartoon elephant with its trunk tied in its trunk was used as a mascot and named Poco. The slogan was 'Don't forget the postcode'.
Cartoon Mascot
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A cartoon used in the Oxford area can be seen below.
Area measurements
| Hectares | 2,392,888 |
|---|---|
| Square miles | 9,238.99 |
| Square feet | 257,568,071,432.00 |
| Square kilometres | 23,928.88 |
Postal delivery offices
- Abingdon Delivery Office
- Banbury Delivery Office
- Bicester Delivery Office
- Carterton Delivery Office
- Chalgrove Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Chinnor Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Chipping Norton Delivery Office
- Didcot Delivery Office
- East Oxford Delivery Office
- Headington Delivery Office
- Kidlington Delivery Office
- Oxford Delivery Office
- Thame Delivery Office
- Wallingford Delivery Office
- Wantage Delivery Office
- Watlington (ox49) Delivery Office
- Wheatley Scale Payment Delivery Office
- Witney Delivery Office
- Woodstock Scale Payment Delivery Office
Tourist attractions within the area
We found 23 visitor attractions within the Oxford postcode area.
| Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens |
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| Wildlife |
| Safari Park / Zoo / Aquarium / Aviary |
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| Tolsey Museum |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Chipping Norton Museum of Local History |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Fairytale Farm |
| Farms |
| Farm / Rare Breeds / Farm Animals |
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| Witney & District Museum |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Swalcliffe Barn |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Vale and Downland Museum |
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| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Broughton Castle |
| Historic Properties |
| Castle / Fort |
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| Farnborough Hall |
| Historic Properties |
| Historic House / House and Garden / Palace |
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| Oxford Bus Museum Trust |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Blenheim Palace |
| Historic Properties |
| Historic House / House and Garden / Palace |
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| Soldiers of Oxfordshire |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Rousham House |
| Historic Properties |
| Historic House / House and Garden / Palace |
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| Ashmolean Museum |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Museum of the History of Science |
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| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Oxford University Museum of Natural History |
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| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Pitt Rivers Museum |
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| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Bodleian Library |
| Historic Properties |
| Other Historic Property |
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| University of Oxford Botanic Garden |
| Gardens |
| Garden |
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| Didcot Railway Centre |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| Wallingford Museum |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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| St Mary's Church, Chalgrove |
| Places of Worship |
| Place of Worship (still in use) |
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| Thame Museum |
| Museums & Art Galleries |
| Museum and / or Art Gallery |
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Towns and villages within the area
- Abingdon-on-Thames — town
- Adderbury — village
- Alkerton — village
- Alvescot — village
- Ambrosden — village
- Appleford-on-Thames — village
- Appleton — village
- Ardington — village
- Ardley — village
- Ascott-under-Wychwood — village
- Aston — village
- Aston Rowant — village
- Aston Tirrold — village
- Aston Upthorpe — village
- Balscote — village
- Bampton — village
- Banbury — town
- Barford St Michael — village
- Bayworth — village
- Beckley — village
- Begbroke — village
- Benson — village
- Berinsfield — village
- Bicester — town
- Black Bourton — village
- Blackthorn — village
- Bladon — village
- Bledington — village
- Bletchingdon — village
- Blewbury — village
- Bloxham — village
- Boars Hill — village
- Bodicote — village
- Bradwell — village
- Brighthampton — village
- Brightwell-cum-Sotwell — village
- Britwell Salome — village
- Brize Norton — village
- Brookhampton — village
- Broughton — village
- Bucknell — village
- Burcot — village
- Burdrop — village
- Burford — town
- Carterton — town
- Cassington — village
- Caulcott — village
- Chacombe — village
- Chadlington — village
- Chalgrove — village
- Charlbury — town
- Charlton — village
- Charlton-on-Otmoor — village
- Charndon — village
- Charney Bassett — village
- Chawley — village
- Chesterton — village
- Childrey — village
- Chilton — village
- Chinnor — village
- Chipping Norton — town
- Chipping Warden — village
- Cholsey — village
- Church Hanborough — village
- Church Westcote — village
- Churchill — village
- Clanfield — village
- Claydon — village
- Clifton — village
- Clifton Hampden — village
- Combe — village
- Cote — village
- Cothill — village
- Crawley — village
- Cropredy — village
- Crowell — village
- Crowmarsh Gifford — village
- Cuddesdon — village
- Culham — village
- Culworth — village
- Cumnor — village
- Curbridge — village
- Cuxham — village
- Deddington — village
- Delly End — village
- Denchworth — village
- Didcot — town
- Dorchester — village
- Drayton — village
- Drayton — village
- Drayton St Leonard — village
- Ducklington — village
- Duns Tew — village
- East Challow — village
- East End — village
- East Hagbourne — village
- East Hanney — village
- East Hendred — village
- East Lockinge — village
- Elsfield — village
- Emmington — village
- Enstone — village
- Epwell — village
- Ewelme — village
- Eynsham — village
- Farmoor — village
- Farnborough — village
- Farnborough — village
- Fawley — village
- Fewcott — village
- Fifield — village
- Finstock — village
- Forest Hill — village
- Freeland — village
- Frilford — village
- Fringford — village
- Fritwell — village
- Fulbrook — village
- Fyfield — village
- Garford — village
- Garsington — village
- Great Barrington — village
- Great Bourton — village
- Great Haseley — village
- Great Milton — village
- Great Rollright — village
- Great Tew — village
- Greatworth — village
- Grove — village
- Hailey — village
- Hampton Poyle — village
- Hanwell — village
- Harwell — village
- Hempton — village
- Henton — village
- Henwood — village
- Hethe — village
- Holton — village
- Hook Norton — village
- Horley — village
- Hornton — village
- Horspath — village
- Horton-cum-Studley — village
- Idbury — village
- Ipsden — village
- Islip — village
- Kennington — village
- Kidlington — town
- Kingham — village
- Kings Sutton — village
- Kingston Bagpuize — village
- Kingston Blount — village
- Kingston Lisle — village
- Kirtlington — village
- Launton — village
- Leafield — village
- Letcombe Bassett — village
- Letcombe Regis — village
- Lewknor — village
- Little Barrington — village
- Little Bourton — village
- Little Milton — village
- Little Tew — village
- Littleworth — village
- Long Hanborough — village
- Long Wittenham — village
- Longworth — village
- Lower Brailes — village
- Lower Heyford — village
- Lower Tadmarton — village
- Lyneham — village
- Marcham — village
- Marsh Baldon — village
- Marsh Gibbon — village
- Marston St Lawrence — village
- Merton — village
- Middle Aston — village
- Middle Barton — village
- Middleton Cheney — village
- Middleton Stoney — village
- Milcombe — village
- Milton — village
- Milton — village
- Milton Common — village
- Milton Heights — village
- Milton Hill — otherSettlement
- Milton-under-Wychwood — village
- Minster Lovell — village
- Mollington — village
- Mongewell — village
- Moreton — village
- Moulsford — village
- New Yatt — village
- Newington — village
- Noke — village
- North Aston — village
- North Leigh — village
- North Moreton — village
- North Newington — village
- North Stoke — village
- Northmoor — village
- Nuneham Courtenay — village
- Oddington — village
- Over Norton — village
- Overthorpe — village
- Oxford — city
- Oxford Spires Park — otherSettlement
- Piddington — village
- Poffley End — village
- Postcombe — village
- Poundon — village
- Pyrton — village
- Radley — village
- Ramsden — village
- Rowstock — village
- Salford — village
- Sandford St Martin — village
- Sandford-on-Thames — village
- Sarsden — otherSettlement
- Shenington — village
- Shillingford — village
- Shilton — village
- Shippon — village
- Shipton-on-Cherwell — village
- Shipton-under-Wychwood — village
- Shirburn — village
- Shotteswell — village
- Shutford — village
- Sibford Ferris — village
- Sibford Gower — village
- Somerton — village
- Souldern — village
- South Hinksey — village
- South Leigh — village
- South Moreton — village
- South Newington — village
- Sparsholt — village
- Spelsbury — village
- Stadhampton — village
- Standlake — village
- Stanton Harcourt — village
- Stanton St John — village
- Steeple Aston — village
- Steventon — village
- Stoke Lyne — village
- Stonesfield — village
- Stratton Audley — village
- Sunningwell — village
- Sutton — village
- Sutton Courtenay — village
- Sutton-under-Brailes — village
- Swalcliffe — village
- Swerford — village
- Swinbrook — village
- Sydenham — village
- Tackley — village
- Tadmarton — village
- Tetsworth — village
- Thame — town
- Thorpe Mandeville — village
- Thrupp — village
- Tiddington — village
- Towersey — village
- Tubney — village
- Twyford — village
- Upper Arncott — village
- Upper Brailes — village
- Upper Heyford — village
- Upper Wardington — village
- Upperton — village
- Upton — village
- Wallingford — town
- Wantage — town
- Warborough — village
- Wardington — village
- Warmington — village
- Waterperry — village
- Watlington — town
- Wendlebury — village
- West Challow — village
- West Hagbourne — village
- West Hanney — village
- West Hendred — village
- Weston-on-the-Green — village
- Wheatley — village
- Wigginton — village
- Winderton — village
- Windrush — village
- Witney — town
- Wolvercote — village
- Woodstock — town
- Wootton — village
- Wootton — village
- Wroxton — village
- Wytham — village
- Yarnton — village