Ouse Close, Didcot house prices are built from 126 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 7 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £142,500. Across the 10 years from 2004 to 2014 the median moved +43.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.2%.
Median price paid
£142,500
Change in cash, 2004–2014
+43.8%
Change in real terms
+11.2%
Median per m²
£2,419
HM Land Registry126 sales41 with floor areaLatest sale 7 May 2026
Section 01
How Ouse Close, Didcot prices moved
The chart tracks the median Ouse Close, Didcot house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2014. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £78,225 | £173,696 |
| 2000s | 6 | £135,750 | £247,297 |
| 2010s | 1 | £218,610 | £308,240 |
The highest yearly median on record for Ouse Close, Didcot is £218,610 in 2014; the lowest is £78,225 in 1999. Across the full 16-year record the cash median has moved from £78,225 to £218,610.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £159,389, so the real change over the whole record is +96.7% — about +4.61% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +43.8% in cash against +11.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 7 May 2026 | Terraced | £314,000 | £314,000 |
| 23 | 6 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 1 | 14 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £317,500 | £317,500 |
| 37 | 23 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| 32 | 13 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £285,000 | £299,888 |
| 30 | 5 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £361,250 | £380,121 |
| 25 | 27 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £318,000 | £334,612 |
| 26 | 10 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £293,000 | £316,575 |
| 39 | 14 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £261,000 | £282,000 |
| 21 | 31 May 2022 | Terraced | £306,000 | £354,528 |
| 19 | 31 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £385,349 |
| 12 | 26 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £264,000 | £333,548 |
| 6 | 20 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £240,000 | £313,915 |
| 5 | 19 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £260,000 | £340,074 |
| 16 | 22 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £392,393 |
| 33 | 26 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £255,000 | £333,534 |
| 26 | 3 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £256,000 | £341,172 |
| 23 | 18 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £255,000 | £355,990 |
| 12 | 11 Jul 2016 | Terraced | £262,500 | £366,460 |
| 39 | 14 Jul 2015 | Terraced | £230,000 | £324,300 |
| 30 | 29 Aug 2014 | Terraced | £267,500 | £383,698 |
| 15 | 22 Jul 2014 | Terraced | £211,500 | £303,372 |
| 19 | 30 May 2014 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £358,596 |
| 25 | 28 Mar 2014 | Terraced | £217,000 | £311,261 |
| 35 | 11 Feb 2014 | Terraced | £199,000 | £285,443 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Ouse Close, Didcot values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Ouse Close | £84,950 (1999) | £314,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 23 Ouse Close | £75,950 (1999) | £300,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 1 Ouse Close | £83,950 (1999) | £317,500 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 37 Ouse Close | £69,500 (1999) | £260,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 32 Ouse Close | £80,000 (1999) | £285,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 30 Ouse Close | £83,500 (1999) | £361,250 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 25 Ouse Close | £76,950 (1999) | £318,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 26 Ouse Close | £76,950 (1999) | £293,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 39 Ouse Close | £69,500 (1999) | £261,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 21 Ouse Close | £83,950 (1999) | £306,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 19 Ouse Close | £91,500 (1999) | £305,000 (2021) | +5.6% | +3.4% |
| 12 Ouse Close | £84,950 (1999) | £264,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ouse Close, Didcot is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 108 | 85.7% | £148,000 | £68,500 – £361,250 |
| Semi-detached | 16 | 12.7% | £95,500 | £71,000 – £305,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.6% | £119,500 | £119,500 – £206,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Ouse Close, Didcot
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 126 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 126 | 100.0% | £142,500 |
| New build | 36 | 28.6% | £78,000 |
| Existing home | 90 | 71.4% | £165,475 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
Section 07
Living in Ouse Close, Didcot
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across South Oxfordshire, 47.1% of 69,345 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 485 | 0.7% |
| B | 13,322 | 19.2% |
| C | 18,821 | 27.1% |
| D | 23,148 | 33.4% |
| E | 9,747 | 14.1% |
| F | 3,070 | 4.4% |
| G | 752 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in South Oxfordshire at £1,384 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,028 for a one-bedroom home and £1,592 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £142,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.65% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of OX11, 135 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 60 violent, 1 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 149,085 residents the 2021 census counted in South Oxfordshire, that is 0.91 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Ouse Close, Didcot
The 2021 census counted 149,085 residents in South Oxfordshire across 61,498 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
19 state and independent schools have a OX11 postcode: 14 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Didcot Girls' School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,633 |
| St Birinus School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,237 |
| Aureus School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 531 |
| Willowcroft Community School | Primary | Academy converter | 481 |
| Didcot Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 451 |
| Aureus Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 450 |
| Stephen Freeman Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 450 |
| Ladygrove Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 423 |
| All Saints Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 421 |
| Northbourne Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 343 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Didcot Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Appleford Rail Station | Rail | 4.4 km |
| Culham Rail Station | Rail | 6.0 km |
| Cholsey Rail Station | Rail | 7.3 km |
Section 09
How Ouse Close, Didcot compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Ouse Close, Didcot sits below that national figure — -9.5%.
Within Didcot the street ranks 507 of 582 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £206,000 (-30.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,419 per square metre, across 41 of the 126 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £68,500 to £361,250. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Ouse Close, Didcot sits in South Oxfordshire, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in South Oxfordshire at 10.0 times median local earnings of £44,822 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Roebuck Court£102,000 median
- Longford Way£129,600 median
- Brunstock Beck£114,950 median
- Orwell Drive£135,000 median
- Rawthey Avenue£173,000 median
- Ockley Brook£107,000 median
- Dart Drive£172,750 median
- High Street£345,000 median
- Wantage Road£242,500 median
- Queensway£192,000 median
- Evenlode Drive£124,500 median
- Ottery Way£107,500 median
- Torridge Drive£131,500 median
- Roding Way£132,000 median
- Fairacres Road£125,000 median
- Wensum Drive£121,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5 Ouse Close7 sales
- 26 Ouse Close6 sales
- 23 Ouse Close5 sales
- 37 Ouse Close5 sales
- 25 Ouse Close5 sales
- 39 Ouse Close5 sales
- 12 Ouse Close5 sales
- 6 Ouse Close5 sales
- 29 Ouse Close5 sales
- 31 Ouse Close5 sales
- 30 Ouse Close4 sales
- 21 Ouse Close4 sales
- 33 Ouse Close4 sales
- 15 Ouse Close4 sales
- 7 Ouse Close4 sales
- 41 Ouse Close4 sales
- 1 Ouse Close3 sales
- 19 Ouse Close3 sales
- 35 Ouse Close3 sales
- 11 Ouse Close3 sales
- 20 Ouse Close3 sales
- 18 Ouse Close3 sales
- 22 Ouse Close3 sales
- 9 Ouse Close3 sales
Back to Didcot house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Ouse Close, Didcot?
The median price paid in Ouse Close, Didcot across every sale on the register is £142,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Ouse Close, Didcot?
126 sales are on record for Ouse Close, Didcot, the most recent completing on 7 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Ouse Close, Didcot house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.8% between 2004 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Ouse Close, Didcot house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £218,610, set in 2014. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Ouse Close, Didcot?
£2,419 per square metre, from the 41 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 7 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Ouse Close, Didcot house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.