Kidlington
TownTown in Cherwell, South East.
Kidlington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kidlington 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 44% of people in Kidlington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kidlington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kidlington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kidlington at a rate of 50.7 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, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kidlington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (327), other crime (165) and anti-social behaviour (75).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kidlington was 51.8 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 Kidlington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kidlington has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Kidlington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherwell 017A | 1,203 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.1% |
| Cherwell 017B | 1,366 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.2% |
| Cherwell 017C | 1,287 | 81.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.1% |
| Cherwell 017D | 1,584 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.7% |
| Cherwell 017E | 1,101 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Cherwell 018A | 1,562 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.7% |
| Cherwell 018B | 1,404 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Cherwell 018C | 1,313 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Cherwell 018D | 1,402 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Cherwell 019A | 1,372 | 69.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 72.6% |
| Cherwell 019C | 1,886 | 124.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.5% |
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 Kidlington1
Middle areas in Kidlington2
Towns near Kidlington6
Kidlington in brief
Kidlington is a town in Cherwell, South East.
About 15,083 people lived in Kidlington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £385,000 in 2025 across 200 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kidlington was £385,000 in 2025.
Kidlington had 14,640 usual residents at the census.
About 44% of people in Kidlington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kidlington, 91.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.