Property market
The five-year median is £937,550 from 1 recorded sale in OX12 8NS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Berkshire is £402,790 in June 2026, up 0.2% year on year.
OX12 8NS
Downlands · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX12 8NS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 8
- Latitude
- 51.534960
- Longitude
- -1.378176
- British National Grid easting
- 443,226
- British National Grid northing
- 181,967
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Downlands · E05012138
- Parish or community
- E04001169
- Westminster constituency
- Newbury · E14001376
- Output area
- E00082276
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 001C · E01016287
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 001 · E02003367
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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Old Smithy Cottage, Farnborough, Wantage, OX12 8NS | 9 September 2022 | £937,550 |
| Old Smithy Cottage, Farnborough, Wantage, OX12 8NS | 12 January 2001 | £415,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
Brightwalton C.E. Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 4.9 km
Chaddleworth St Andrew's C.E. Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 1.1
- OX12 8 residents
- 6,126
5 female, 3 male
Age bands in OX12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,096 residents
643 residents
1,660 residents
1,765 residents
1,281 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OX12 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Smithy
BCT · Farnborough
- 0.0 miles
The Smithy
BCT · Farnborough
- 0.8 miles
California Farm
BCT · Farnborough
- 0.8 miles
California Farm
BCT · Farnborough
- 1.6 miles
Manor Farm
BCT · Brightwalton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 001C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,907 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Brightwalton C.E. Aided Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.