Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. King Alfred's is the nearest published school at 706 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX12 9NA
Wantage Charlton · Vale of White Horse · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wantage
- Ward
- Wantage Charlton
- 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 9NA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX12
- Postcode sector
- OX12 9
- Latitude
- 51.584568
- Longitude
- -1.439101
- British National Grid easting
- 438,958
- British National Grid northing
- 187,450
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
- E00146474
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 014H · E01035758
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Meadowgrove, Letcombe Road, Wantage, OX12 9NA | 20 February 2019 | £1,500,000 |
| Meadowgrove, Letcombe Road, Wantage, OX12 9NA | 27 July 2001 | £950,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 706 m
King Alfred's
Academy converter
- 949 m
Stockham Primary School
Community school
- 970 m
Wantage Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 707
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 313
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Public order 73
- Other theft 62
- Criminal damage and arson 47
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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
CHURCH STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, GROVE, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84033
1.8 km
NEWBURY STREET PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MABLY WAY, WANTAGE, OX12 9BN
ODS code K84019
1.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Ham Road
BCT · Wantage
- 0.4 miles
King Alfreds School West
BCT · Wantage
- 0.4 miles
Warmans Close
BCT · Wantage
- 0.4 miles
Warmans Close
BCT · Wantage
- 0.5 miles
King Alfreds School
BCT · Wantage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Vale of White Horse 014H, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,536 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
Recorded crime
707 published events cover 12 months, averaging 58.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 313 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.