Oxfordshire · England
Cowley population
16,500people · latest estimate
Cowley has a population of 16,500, making it the 7th largest place in Oxfordshire.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Oxford population trends, 2001–2025.
Cowley in context
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The centre of Cowley sits in postcode district OX4.
Council tax
The area Band D council tax for Oxford, the billing authority covering Cowley, is £2,678 for 2026–27.
From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.