Carterton
TownTown in West Oxfordshire, South East.
Carterton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Carterton add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 81% of people in Carterton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Carterton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Carterton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Carterton at a rate of 48.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Carterton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (416), other crime (152) and anti-social behaviour (114).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Carterton was 43.2 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Carterton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Carterton has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Carterton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Oxfordshire 012E | 2,406 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| West Oxfordshire 013D | 2,440 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| West Oxfordshire 013E | 1,365 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 74.2% |
| West Oxfordshire 013F | 1,729 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.7% |
| West Oxfordshire 013G | 2,035 | 42.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| West Oxfordshire 013H | 2,463 | 42.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| West Oxfordshire 014A | 1,478 | 63.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| West Oxfordshire 014B | 1,351 | 78.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.9% |
| West Oxfordshire 014C | 1,573 | 89.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.5% |
| West Oxfordshire 014D | 1,247 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
Your MP
- Charlie MaynardLiberal DemocratMP for Witney
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Carterton1
Middle areas in Carterton2
Towns near Carterton6
Carterton in brief
Carterton is a town in West Oxfordshire, South East.
About 18,994 people lived in Carterton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £331,250 in 2025 across 264 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Carterton was £331,250 in 2025.
Carterton had 17,951 usual residents at the census.
About 81% of people in Carterton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Carterton, 94.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.