Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wantage Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 187 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX12 7QY
Wantage Charlton · Vale of White Horse · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wantage Charlton
- 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 7QY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 7
- Latitude
- 51.597556
- Longitude
- -1.407005
- British National Grid easting
- 441,170
- British National Grid northing
- 188,912
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Vale of White Horse · E07000180
- Electoral ward
- Wantage Charlton · E05012979
- Parish or community
- E04012874
- Westminster constituency
- Didcot and Wantage · E14001197
- Output area
- E00146291
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 187 m
Wantage Primary Academy
Free schools
- 670 m
Charlton Primary School
Academy converter
- 934 m
Huckleberry Therapeutic School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 545
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 232
- Anti social behaviour 73
- Other theft 51
- Public order 46
- Shoplifting 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX12 7 residents
- 6,264
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
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
CHURCH STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, GROVE, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84033
1.3 km
NEWBURY STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84019
1.3 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
- 0.2 miles
Seymore Crescent
BCT · Charlton
- 0.3 miles
Seymore Crescent
BCT · Charlton
- 0.3 miles
Primrose Avenue
BCT · Charlton
- 0.4 miles
Aldworth Avenue
BCT · Charlton
- 0.4 miles
Aldworth Avenue
BCT · Charlton
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
545 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 232 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.