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On Benson Road, in Lye Valley & Cowley East
What it's like at OX3 7EH: every home that has sold on Benson Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Benson Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 39 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2014 | £282,556 | 96 m² | £2,943/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £424,000 | 87 m² | £4,874/m² | 4 |
| 6, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2013 | £280,000 | 105 m² | £2,667/m² | 3 |
| 8, Benson RoadDetached | Jul 2018 | £390,000 | 97 m² | £4,021/m² | 1 |
| 10, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2008 | £265,000 | 106 m² | £2,500/m² | 3 |
| 12, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2012 | £247,000 | 104 m² | £2,375/m² | 3 |
| 14, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £311,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Benson RoadTerraced | Jan 2025 | £445,000 | 86 m² | £5,174/m² | 2 |
| 18, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2004 | £220,000 | 104 m² | £2,115/m² | 1 |
| 20, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2008 | £242,000 | 85 m² | £2,847/m² | 2 |
| 22, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £412,000 | 78 m² | £5,282/m² | 2 |
| 24, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2018 | £375,000 | 77 m² | £4,870/m² | 3 |
| 26, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2003 | £198,950 | 88 m² | £2,261/m² | 1 |
| 28, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2022 | £253,000 | 51 m² | £4,961/m² | 4 |
| 32, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £425,000 | 74 m² | £5,743/m² | 5 |
| 36, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Sept 1996 | £69,000 | 153 m² | £451/m² | 1 |
| 38, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2015 | £315,000 | 86 m² | £3,663/m² | 2 |
| 42, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2001 | £183,000 | 109 m² | £1,679/m² | 1 |
| 44, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2000 | £171,500 | 130 m² | £1,319/m² | 2 |
| 50, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £450,000 | 86 m² | £5,233/m² | 3 |
| 52a, Benson RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2002 | £170,000 | 41 m² | £4,146/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Oxford, a drive away (4.5 km), with 8.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Cinnaminta Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes 700, 100, 600, 13); 74 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 78 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Wood Farm Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 68% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Oxford Spires Academy, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 46.3 · 9.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Cherwell School (5.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Coop, 350 m away, with Best One closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Woodfarm Health Centre (300 m), with The Leys Pharmacy Wood Farm the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Kenny's Hair Boutique is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is John Radcliffe Hospital, 3.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 62% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Bullingdon Community Association is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Corner House the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 82 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 7% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 49% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Broad Oak Nature Park, 650 m away; for exercise, The Gym (850 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 59 km away.
Most households own their home, 32% rent privately.
It's young: 31% of residents are aged 15–29.
There's a sizeable student population: 23% of adults were full-time students in 2021.
22 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Oxford East constituency: Anneliese Dodds MP (Labour (Co-op)), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 14,465 (36.8%), turnout 55%. Vote shares: Labour 50%, Green Party 13%, Conservative 12%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
19 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near OX3 7EH →
The nearest university is Oxford Brookes University, 1.5 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 65 min
Nearest: Cholsey and Wallingford Railway · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 34 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.5% | 87.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.7% | 10.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 39 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.