OX2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,023 of the district's 1,669 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.76629, -1.28101, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OX2

Companies House lists 3,580 companies with a registered office in OX2; 1,157 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for OX2

• Oxfordshire
• South East
• Oxford
• Vale of White Horse
• Wolvercote
• Cumnor
• Chawley
• Farmoor
• Cherwell
• Wytham
• Filchampstead
• Binsey
• South Oxfordshire
• Water Eaton

Roads filed under OX2

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbey Road
• Abingdon Road
• Acer Walk
• Adelaide Street
• Albert Street
• Aldrich Road
• Alexandra Road
• Allam Street
• Appleby Way
• Appleton Road
• Apsley Road
• Aristotle Lane
• Arnold's Way
• Arthray Road
• Arthur Garrard Close
• Arthur Street
• Ash Close
• Ashcroft Close
• Bainton Road
• Banbury Road
• Bardwell Road
• Barn Close
• Barrett Street
• Baynhams Drive
• Beech Croft Road
• Beech Road
• Belbroughton Road
• Benson Place
• Bertie Road
• Bevington Road
• Binsey Lane
• Bishop Kirk Place
• Bladon Close
• Blandford Avenue
• Blenheim Drive
• Blomfield Place
• Bodley Place
• Botley Road
• Bourne Close
• Bradmore Road
• Breeches End
• Bridge Street
• Brindley Close
• Broad Close
• Brock Grove
• Brogden Close
• Browns Close
• Buckler Road
• Bullstake Close
• Burgess Mead
• Bushy Close
• Calender Place
• Canal Street
• Canterbury Road
• Capel Close
• Cardigan Street
• Carey Close
• Carlton Road
• Cavendish Road
• Cedar Road

Check an address in OX2

Check an address in OX2

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OX2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OX2

What does an OX2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OX2 district of the OX (Oxford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Oxford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,023 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest OX2

• OX12.7 km
• OX34.8 km
• OX45.9 km
• OX57.1 km
• OX339.7 km
• OX1410.9 km
• OX2011.2 km
• OX2911.2 km
• OX1311.5 km
• OX4413.5 km
• OX2814.3 km
• OX2515.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids