The median advertised room in a shared house in Oxford is £850 a month, and half of all rooms sit between £750 and £953. Measured from 51 live listings on 2026-08-09. No official statistics track what a room costs, so we do.
Sharing saves about £500 a month against the official average one-bed in Oxford (£1,350, ONS) before bills, so roughly £6,000 a year.
90% of rooms accept students. Most of the market is open to you, so don't settle for a bad room.
The middle option. Studios here run about £800 a month: between a £850 room and a £1,350 one-bed, for a front door of your own.
Paste the listing into the free student rent check and get a verdict for that exact address: whether the rent is fair for the street, how far it is from campus, and the area basics nobody puts in the advert.