Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Fitzwaryn School is the nearest published school at 906 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX12 7YX
Wantage & Grove Brook · Vale of White Horse · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 7YX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 April 2001
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 7
- Latitude
- 51.599979
- Longitude
- -1.420372
- British National Grid easting
- 440,242
- British National Grid northing
- 189,174
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
- 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
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 906 m
Fitzwaryn School
Academy special converter
- 1.0 km
Charlton Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Wantage Primary Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,281
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 574
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Public order 125
- Other theft 98
- Criminal damage and arson 80
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 straight-line
CHURCH STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, GROVE, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84033
401 m
NEWBURY STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84019
401 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wolage Drive
BCT · Grove
- 0.2 miles
Wolage Drive
BCT · Grove
- 0.2 miles
Grove Road Roundabout
BCT · Wantage
- 0.3 miles
Health Centre
BCT · Wantage
- 0.3 miles
Mandhill Close
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,281 published events cover 12 months, averaging 106.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 574 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.