Faringdon
TownTown in Vale of White Horse, South East.
Faringdon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Faringdon 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 Faringdon, 85.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Faringdon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Faringdon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Faringdon at a rate of 69.0 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, 52 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Faringdon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (265), other crime (118) and shoplifting (106).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Faringdon was 67.6 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 Faringdon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Faringdon has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Faringdon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vale of White Horse 009A | 2,425 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.9% |
| Vale of White Horse 009B | 1,553 | 79.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 55.8% |
| Vale of White Horse 009C | 1,469 | 104.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.5% |
| Vale of White Horse 009D | 1,608 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.0% |
| Vale of White Horse 016F | 2,351 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
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 Faringdon1
Middle areas in Faringdon1
Towns near Faringdon6
Faringdon in brief
Faringdon is a town in Vale of White Horse, South East.
About 9,559 people lived in Faringdon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £336,000 in 2025 across 208 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Faringdon was £336,000 in 2025.
Faringdon had 8,625 usual residents at the census.
In Faringdon, 85.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Faringdon, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.