Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Millbrook Primary School is the nearest published school at 334 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX12 7NH
Wantage & Grove Brook · Vale of White Horse · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wantage
- Local authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX12 7NH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 7
- Latitude
- 51.607768
- Longitude
- -1.420966
- British National Grid easting
- 440,194
- British National Grid northing
- 190,040
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Vale of White Horse · E07000180
- Electoral ward
- Wantage & Grove Brook · E05012978
- Parish or community
- E04012869
- Westminster constituency
- Didcot and Wantage · E14001197
- Output area
- E00146307
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 011B · E01028722
- Middle layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 011 · E02005988
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore OX12
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Bell Close, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7NH | 16 December 2020 | £420,000 |
| 2, Bell Close, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7NH | 3 January 2018 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 334 m
Millbrook Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 611 m
Grove Church of England School
Academy converter
- 907 m
St Johns CofE Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 624
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 304
- Anti social behaviour 72
- Public order 51
- Other theft 42
- Shoplifting 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- OX12 7 residents
- 6,264
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in OX12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.7%
1,093 residents
560 residents
1,552 residents
1,469 residents
1,450 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX12 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
CHURCH STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, GROVE, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84033
1.1 km
NEWBURY STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84019
1.1 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bosleys Orchard
BCT · Grove
- 0.1 miles
Bosleys Orchard
BCT · Grove
- 0.1 miles
Hawthorn Crescent
BCT · Grove
- 0.1 miles
Hawthorn Crescent
BCT · Grove
- 0.1 miles
Millbrook Square
BCT · Grove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Vale of White Horse 011B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,247 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
624 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 304 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.