Bicester
TownTown in Cherwell, South East.
Bicester is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bicester 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 90% of people in Bicester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bicester compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bicester safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bicester at a rate of 82.4 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, 285 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bicester.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,129), shoplifting (898) and other crime (576).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bicester was 74.8 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 Bicester, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bicester has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bicester
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherwell 011C | 1,381 | 19.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Cherwell 011G | 1,686 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.1% |
| Cherwell 012A | 1,442 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Cherwell 012B | 2,047 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.8% |
| Cherwell 012C | 1,660 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Cherwell 012D | 1,577 | 53.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.9% |
| Cherwell 013A | 1,493 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.5% |
| Cherwell 013B | 1,457 | 83.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.7% |
| Cherwell 013C | 1,369 | 29.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Cherwell 013D | 1,567 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.7% |
| Cherwell 013E | 1,829 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.5% |
| Cherwell 014A | 1,758 | 109.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.2% |
| Cherwell 014B | 1,426 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.2% |
| Cherwell 014C | 1,646 | 50.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Cherwell 014D | 1,346 | 69.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| Cherwell 014E | 1,205 | 86.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Cherwell 014F | 1,469 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.5% |
| Cherwell 015A | 2,592 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.2% |
| Cherwell 015B | 1,645 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 015C | 1,376 | 21.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cherwell 015E | 1,740 | 339.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 75.3% |
| Cherwell 015F | 1,228 | 492.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.7% |
| Cherwell 016G | 1,912 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Cherwell 016H | 1,702 | 87.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Calum MillerLiberal DemocratMP for Bicester and Woodstock
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 Bicester3
Middle areas in Bicester4
Towns near Bicester6
Bicester in brief
Bicester is a town in Cherwell, South East.
About 40,424 people lived in Bicester in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £351,534 in 2025 across 604 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bicester was £351,534 in 2025.
Bicester had 37,748 usual residents at the census.
About 90% of people in Bicester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bicester, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.