Cricket Road, Oxford house prices are built from 202 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £249,950. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +47.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.8%.
Median price paid
£249,950
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+47.8%
Change in real terms
+21.8%
Median per m²
£3,232
HM Land Registry202 sales63 with floor areaLatest sale 8 May 2026
Section 01
How Cricket Road, Oxford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cricket Road, Oxford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. 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 | 4 | £90,250 | £200,398 |
| 2000s | 8 | £220,000 | £400,775 |
| 2010s | 7 | £381,167 | £537,445 |
| 2020s | 2 | £407,500 | £416,359 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cricket Road, Oxford is £419,500 in 2016; the lowest is £71,975 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £71,975 to £413,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £156,130, so the real change over the whole record is +234.8% — about +4.95% 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: +47.8% in cash against +21.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £445,000 |
| 22 | 17 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| 142 | 5 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £422,400 | £422,400 |
| 47 | 17 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £465,000 | £475,109 |
| 115 | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £472,500 | £482,772 |
| 32 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| 134 | 11 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £505,000 | £531,381 |
| 78 | 15 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £515,000 | £541,903 |
| 56 | 14 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £665,000 | £699,739 |
| 84 | 9 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £462,985 |
| 65 | 27 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £555,000 | £599,655 |
| 86 | 27 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £515,000 | £556,437 |
| 59 | 24 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £464,000 | £501,333 |
| 18 | 14 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 29 | 20 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 11 | 22 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £567,750 | £657,788 |
| 105 | 25 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £507,500 | £587,983 |
| 1 | 24 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 150 | 2 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £435,000 | £549,597 |
| Flat 2 Shelley House, 114d | 20 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| 82 | 30 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £612,500 | £773,858 |
| 2 | 24 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £382,500 | £483,266 |
| 14 | 8 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £392,500 | £495,901 |
| 48 | 19 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £511,000 | £645,618 |
| 32 | 17 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £395,000 | £511,433 |
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 Cricket Road, Oxford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Cricket Road | £65,000 (1997) | £445,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 22 Cricket Road | £212,000 (2010) | £475,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.1% |
| 142 Cricket Road | £80,300 (1997) | £422,400 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 47 Cricket Road | £59,950 (1995) | £465,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 115 Cricket Road | £109,950 (1997) | £472,500 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 32 Cricket Road | £66,750 (1996) | £420,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 134 Cricket Road | £82,000 (1997) | £505,000 (2024) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 78 Cricket Road | £103,700 (1998) | £515,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 56 Cricket Road | £499,950 (2015) | £665,000 (2024) | +3.2% | -0.1% |
| 65 Cricket Road | £305,000 (2011) | £555,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 86 Cricket Road | £68,000 (1998) | £515,000 (2023) | +8.4% | +5.6% |
| 59 Cricket Road | £200,000 (2005) | £464,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +1.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cricket Road, Oxford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 115 | 56.9% | £240,000 | £59,000 – £674,000 |
| Terraced | 74 | 36.6% | £249,999 | £45,000 – £525,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 10 | 5.0% | £270,000 | £166,000 – £337,500 |
| Detached | 3 | 1.5% | £350,000 | £290,000 – £630,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cricket Road, Oxford
10 of the sales on record are leasehold and 192 freehold — 5.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £280,000 and the median freehold sale £249,475 — a gap of -10.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 10 | 5.0% | £280,000 |
| Freehold | 192 | 95.0% | £249,475 |
| New build | 8 | 4.0% | £109,950 |
| Existing home | 194 | 96.0% | £250,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -56.0%. 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.
A further 4 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Cricket Road, Oxford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Oxford, 49.8% of 78,812 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 428 | 0.5% |
| B | 7,237 | 9.2% |
| C | 31,547 | 40.0% |
| D | 27,675 | 35.1% |
| E | 9,614 | 12.2% |
| F | 1,844 | 2.3% |
| G | 467 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Oxford at £1,961 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,350 for a one-bedroom home and £2,031 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £249,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.41% 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 OX4, 390 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 151 violent, 11 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 34 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.
Against the 162,040 residents the 2021 census counted in Oxford, that is 2.41 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 Cricket Road, Oxford
The 2021 census counted 162,040 residents in Oxford across 55,239 households. 46.8% of those households own their home and 53.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
19 state and independent schools have a OX4 postcode: 15 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Spires Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,351 |
| The Oxford Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,062 |
| Greyfriars Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 669 |
| Pegasus School | Primary | Academy converter | 479 |
| Church Cowley St James Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 459 |
| Larkrise Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 434 |
| St Mary and St John Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 399 |
| John Henry Newman Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 392 |
| St Frideswide Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 330 |
| Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 318 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Oxford Rail Station | Rail | 4.4 km |
| Radley Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Culham Rail Station | Rail | 8.7 km |
| Oxford Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 9.0 km |
Section 09
How Cricket Road, Oxford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cricket Road, Oxford sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Within Oxford the street ranks 740 of 1517 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £249,000 (+0.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,232 per square metre, across 63 of the 202 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 £45,000 to £674,000. 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.
Cricket Road, Oxford sits in Oxford, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Oxford at 10.3 times median local earnings of £43,502 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
- Oxford Road£239,500 median
- Mandelbrote Drive£220,000 median
- Reliance Way£280,000 median
- Campbell Road£215,000 median
- Herschel Crescent£210,000 median
- Church Road£262,000 median
- Howard Street£230,000 median
- Bennett Crescent£190,000 median
- Crescent Road£245,000 median
- Hollow Way£187,500 median
- Hurst Street£283,000 median
- Charles Street£250,000 median
- Iffley Road£310,000 median
- Pheasant Walk£140,000 median
- Divinity Road£325,000 median
- Percy Street£250,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 32 Cricket Road6 sales
- 26 Cricket Road6 sales
- 86 Cricket Road5 sales
- 150 Cricket Road5 sales
- 7 Cricket Road4 sales
- 22 Cricket Road4 sales
- 134 Cricket Road4 sales
- 78 Cricket Road4 sales
- 105 Cricket Road4 sales
- 136 Cricket Road4 sales
- 24 Cricket Road4 sales
- 119 Cricket Road4 sales
- 17 Cricket Road4 sales
- 42 Cricket Road4 sales
- 142 Cricket Road3 sales
- 115 Cricket Road3 sales
- 65 Cricket Road3 sales
- 59 Cricket Road3 sales
- 14 Cricket Road3 sales
- 48 Cricket Road3 sales
- 109 Cricket Road3 sales
- 138 Cricket Road3 sales
- 111 Cricket Road3 sales
- 41 Cricket Road3 sales
Back to Oxford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cricket Road, Oxford?
The median price paid in Cricket Road, Oxford across every sale on the register is £249,950. 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 Cricket Road, Oxford?
202 sales are on record for Cricket Road, Oxford, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cricket Road, Oxford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +47.8% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cricket Road, Oxford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £419,500, set in 2016. 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 Cricket Road, Oxford?
£3,232 per square metre, from the 63 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 8 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, “Cricket Road, Oxford 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.