Living in Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Sold prices, price trends, local rents and house prices against earnings for Oxford - compiled from official sources into one report. Enter your email and we will send you your copy.
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Homes in Oxford cost 10.34 times median annual earnings for people working there (2025).
- Across England: 7.63 times (2025)
- Oxford a year earlier: 11.21 times (2024)
What this measures: the median price paid for homes in Oxford over the 12 months to September 2025, divided by the median gross annual pay of full-time employees who work in Oxford, wherever they live. That is what "workplace-based" means - it is about jobs in the area, not the earnings of people who live there. Earnings come from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (April 2025). A higher ratio means homes are less affordable for people working locally. The latest year uses provisional earnings, which ONS revises the following year. This is a council-area figure, not a valuation of any home.
Source: Office for National Statistics, House price to workplace-based earnings ratio, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Last reviewed 20 October 2026.
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Recent sold prices near Oxford (postcode OX1)
| Address | Price | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47, CANNING CRESCENT | £435,000 | Semi-detached | Sep 2026 |
| 46, SUNNINGWELL ROAD | £655,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 17, ROBINSON ROAD | £388,000 | Semi-detached | Sep 2026 |
| 12, RIVER VIEW | £285,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 2, LIDDIARD CLOSE | £435,000 | Detached | Sep 2026 |
| 158, POPLAR GROVE | £450,000 | Detached | Sep 2026 |
| 52, SUNNINGWELL ROAD | £700,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 19, GORDON STREET | £500,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| FLAT 2, PERKINS, UPPER ROAD | £250,000 | Flat | Aug 2026 |
| 57, BAGLEY WOOD ROAD | £730,000 | Detached | Aug 2026 |
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.