Didcot
TownTown in South Oxfordshire, South East.
Didcot is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Didcot 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Didcot, 94.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Didcot compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Didcot safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Didcot at a rate of 61.8 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, 200 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Didcot.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (998), other crime (396) and anti-social behaviour (288).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Didcot was 67.5 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 Didcot, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Didcot has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Didcot
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Oxfordshire 009A | 1,939 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.9% |
| South Oxfordshire 009B | 1,591 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Oxfordshire 009C | 1,426 | 28.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.1% |
| South Oxfordshire 009D | 1,742 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.9% |
| South Oxfordshire 009E | 1,417 | 13.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.6% |
| South Oxfordshire 010B | 2,024 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.6% |
| South Oxfordshire 010C | 1,599 | 249.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.1% |
| South Oxfordshire 010D | 2,260 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.6% |
| South Oxfordshire 010E | 1,804 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.4% |
| South Oxfordshire 010F | 1,849 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.4% |
| South Oxfordshire 013A | 1,429 | 26.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| South Oxfordshire 013B | 1,143 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.6% |
| South Oxfordshire 013C | 1,474 | 75.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| South Oxfordshire 013D | 1,466 | 77.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.5% |
| South Oxfordshire 014A | 1,310 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Oxfordshire 014B | 1,557 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| South Oxfordshire 014C | 1,321 | 114.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.4% |
| South Oxfordshire 014D | 2,171 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| South Oxfordshire 015F | 2,664 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Vale of White Horse 015H | 1,613 | 122.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.8% |
Your MP
- Olly GloverLiberal DemocratMP for Didcot and Wantage
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 Didcot1
Middle areas in Didcot4
Towns near Didcot6
Didcot in brief
Didcot is a town in South Oxfordshire, South East.
About 37,124 people lived in Didcot in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £360,000 in 2025 across 595 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Didcot was £360,000 in 2025.
Didcot had 34,600 usual residents at the census.
In Didcot, 94.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Didcot, 2.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.