Teams working on Oxfordshire’s roads have fixed over 24,000 potholes, with almost 5,000 still waiting to be dealt with.

Data from Oxfordshire County Council shows 24,330 potholes have been repaired while 4,725 remain on the list to be addressed.

Between February 20 and April 19, workers completed 13,760 repairs using conventional techniques, with the rest taken care of by dragon patcher machines.

Reports keep coming in via the Fix My Street website, with 1,105 fresh pothole reports filed in the past week.

The platform currently displays 4,689 pothole reports flagged as open, meaning residents have reported them but council staff have not yet examined them.

More than 80,000 potholes are recorded as closed on the site, indicating these have been reported and are now being looked into.

An eight-week period shows the following repairs broken down by district: Cherwell accounted for 1,798 potholes, the western district saw 1,304 fixed, the city centre had 606, the southern area recorded 2,815, and Vale of White Horse totaled 1,305.

Research by the RAC reveals Oxfordshire County Council dealt with 488 compensation claims in 2021, rising to 1,941 in 2024, a 297 percent rise over three years.

This increase in reports and claims is warranted, according to locals who have identified the A40 and London Road eastbound lanes, Bedford Street, Beaumont Street, and an M40 interchange as particularly dangerous because of persistent deep potholes.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, whose vehicle needed towing after hitting a pothole on the B4437 near Burford, and George Balkwill, a scooter rider who was taken to hospital following a pothole incident in Oxford’s Cowley area in February, have both brought attention to the problem.

English councils risk having up to one-third of their road repair funding retained if they cannot show effective performance, the Department for Transport has stated.

Of the £1.6 billion set aside for local road maintenance in the 2026/27 financial year, £525 million will be kept back unless authorities demonstrate appropriate spending.

For Oxfordshire, this means significant stakes, as the county has received £34 million for pothole repairs during the current year.

The estimated national cost to bring pothole-damaged roads up to standard has apparently reached a record £18.6 billion.

Oxfordshire County Council has pledged to resurface over one million square metres of road by the end of June 2026.

The council has deployed specialist repair teams, dragon patcher units and bobcat patching equipment to deal with the county’s road damage.

Dragon patcher technology heats the road surface, bonds the material and seals the pothole.

Bobcat patching equipment removes larger sections of damaged road, after which teams complete the repair work.