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Oxford is best known for the University of Oxford and its historic colleges, its 'dreaming spires', the Bodleian Library, and car manufacturing at Cowley.
Postcode districts: OX1, OX2, OX4
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- Prices: Oxford · August 2026
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Full Oxford area guideProperty prices
£478,080
Average price across Oxford · -2.9% in a year
- Detached
- £965,950
- Semi-detached
- £589,760
- Terraced
- £469,986
- Flat / maisonette
- £291,220
Regional figure (Oxford), not a valuation of a specific street.
Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI · Updated August 2026
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Oxford is a historic city famous for the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world, teaching since at least the 11th century. Its 'dreaming spires', ancient colleges, the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera give the city its distinctive skyline. Oxford also has a strong industrial side, with car manufacturing at Cowley for over a century. A world centre of learning, research and publishing with good links to London, Oxford offers renters a highly competitive market driven by students and academics.
Source notes: Summarised from Wikipedia ("Oxford", Wikidata Q34217) and Museum of Oxford / University of Oxford heritage information.
Page prepared 2026-11-07. Figures come from the official sources named on each card; where we don't have reliable data we say so.