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Oxted

Town

Town in Tandridge, South East.

Oxted is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Oxted 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 65% of people in Oxted live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£580,000
Joint 35th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
11,491
322nd least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
65%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
91.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Oxted compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

OxtedMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Oxted is £580,000.
£580,000joint 18th most expensive
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Oxted is 11,491.
11,49148th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Oxted is 65.0%.
65%87th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Oxted is 91.9%.
91.9%joint 84th highest

Is Oxted safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oxted at a rate of 60.9 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, 82 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oxted.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (213), anti-social behaviour (148) and other crime (124).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Oxted was 60.3 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 Oxted, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Oxted has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Oxted

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Tandridge 006C1,607147.9 per 1,000893.5%
Tandridge 006D1,49837.5 per 1,0001089.9%
Tandridge 006E1,34350.0 per 1,000879.1%
Tandridge 006F1,43140.0 per 1,0001079.5%
Tandridge 007A1,43048.9 per 1,000598.8%
Tandridge 007B1,36821.3 per 1,0001088.7%
Tandridge 007C2,31834.6 per 1,000597.3%
Tandridge 007D1,51389.2 per 1,000493.2%

Your MP

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 Oxted1

Middle areas in Oxted2

Towns near Oxted6

Oxted in brief

Oxted is a town in Tandridge, South East.

About 11,963 people lived in Oxted in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £580,000 in 2025 across 163 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 60.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Oxted was £580,000 in 2025.

Oxted had 11,491 usual residents at the census.

About 65% of people in Oxted live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Oxted, 91.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.