Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stockham Primary School is the nearest published school at 306 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX12 9DW
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX12 9DW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2017
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 9
- Latitude
- 51.590998
- Longitude
- -1.439310
- British National Grid easting
- 438,938
- British National Grid northing
- 188,165
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
- E04012874
- Westminster constituency
- Didcot and Wantage · E14001197
- Output area
- E00146487
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 014D · E01028759
- Middle layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 014 · E02005991
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
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 306 m
Stockham Primary School
Community school
- 751 m
Fitzwaryn School
Academy special converter
- 845 m
King Alfred's
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 802
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 359
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Public order 77
- Other theft 69
- Criminal damage and arson 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX12 9 residents
- 9,593
Age bands in OX12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
1,691 residents
887 residents
2,427 residents
2,712 residents
2,153 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
1.3 km
NEWBURY STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84019
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Warmans Close
BCT · Wantage
- 0.1 miles
Dean Butler Close
BCT · Wantage
- 0.1 miles
Dean Butler Close
BCT · Wantage
- 0.1 miles
Warmans Close
BCT · Wantage
- 0.2 miles
King Alfreds School West
BCT · Wantage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Vale of White Horse 014D, 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
23,701 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
802 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 359 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.