Banbury
TownTown in Cherwell, South East.
Banbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Banbury add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Banbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Banbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Banbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Banbury at a rate of 97.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 490 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Banbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,284), other crime (1,021) and anti-social behaviour (635).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Banbury was 98.0 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Banbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Banbury has no single figure. Of its 33 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Banbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherwell 001F | 1,727 | 63.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.9% |
| Cherwell 002A | 2,453 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 71.5% |
| Cherwell 002C | 1,446 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.3% |
| Cherwell 002D | 1,414 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Cherwell 002E | 2,194 | 46.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Cherwell 002F | 1,333 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |
| Cherwell 003A | 1,479 | 202.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 11.7% |
| Cherwell 003B | 1,583 | 185.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 74.4% |
| Cherwell 003C | 1,270 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 003D | 1,683 | 79.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 004A | 2,073 | 370.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 57.4% |
| Cherwell 004C | 1,627 | 97.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.0% |
| Cherwell 004E | 1,397 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Cherwell 004F | 1,637 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.5% |
| Cherwell 004G | 1,479 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.0% |
| Cherwell 004H | 1,512 | 123.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.8% |
| Cherwell 004I | 1,210 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.2% |
| Cherwell 004J | 1,664 | 79.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.6% |
| Cherwell 005A | 1,469 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 005B | 1,522 | 142.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.5% |
| Cherwell 005C | 1,291 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| Cherwell 005D | 1,474 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 005E | 1,406 | 114.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 005F | 1,722 | 119.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Cherwell 006A | 1,873 | 178.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.2% |
| Cherwell 006B | 1,617 | 87.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.4% |
| Cherwell 006C | 1,982 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Cherwell 006D | 1,610 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 006E | 1,941 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Cherwell 007A | 1,765 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Cherwell 007B | 1,460 | 166.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| Cherwell 007C | 1,347 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Cherwell 007D | 1,076 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Sean WoodcockLabourMP for Banbury
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Banbury1
Middle areas in Banbury6
Towns near Banbury6
Banbury in brief
Banbury is a town in Cherwell, South East.
About 56,338 people lived in Banbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £290,000 in 2025 across 753 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 97.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Banbury was £290,000 in 2025.
Banbury had 52,041 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Banbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Banbury, 88.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.