Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Johns CofE Academy is the nearest published school at 955 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX12 9FN
Ridgeway · Vale of White Horse · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ridgeway
- 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 9FN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 October 2016
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 9
- Latitude
- 51.604913
- Longitude
- -1.446142
- British National Grid easting
- 438,453
- British National Grid northing
- 189,709
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Vale of White Horse · E07000180
- Electoral ward
- Ridgeway · E05009769
- Parish or community
- E04012127
- Westminster constituency
- Didcot and Wantage · E14001197
- Output area
- E00146282
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 016G · E01028720
- Middle layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 016 · E02006886
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
- 955 m
St Johns CofE Academy
Free schools
- 1.5 km
Fitzwaryn School
Academy special converter
- 1.5 km
Stockham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 446
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 214
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Public order 34
- Other theft 24
- Shoplifting 24
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
1.6 km
NEWBURY STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84019
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Boston House
BCT · Grove Business Park
- 0.6 miles
Whitley Close
BCT · Grove
- 0.6 miles
Whitley Close
BCT · Grove
- 0.7 miles
Grove Airfield Memorial
BCT · Grove
- 0.7 miles
Grove Airfield Memorial
BCT · Grove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Vale of White Horse 016G, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,700 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
446 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 214 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.