# Grove Town in Vale of White Horse, South East. Grove is a town in Vale of White Horse, South East. Median sale price £343,900 in 2025. Recorded crime 59.8 per 1,000 people. About 9,094 people. Town. Code E63004778. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Vale of White Horse](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse) Grove is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Grove 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £343,900** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Grove was £343,900 in 2025. 297th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/grove#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 7,942** (2021). Grove had 7,942 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 54th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/grove#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 31%** (2022). About 31% of people in Grove live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/grove#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.4%** (January 2026). In Grove, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/grove#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63004778) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 31% of people in Grove live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63004778) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 205 homes were sold in Grove in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63004778) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Grove. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63004778) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Grove had 7,942 usual residents at the census. ## How Grove compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Grove | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £343,900 | 60th cheapest | 209 towns, South East · 2025 | | Population | 7,942 | 12th least populated | 209 towns, South East · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 31% | 101st fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 209 towns, South East · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.4% | joint 39th highest | 209 towns, South East · Jan 2026 | ## Is Grove safe? What police records show In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Grove at a rate of 59.8 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, 61 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Grove. In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (248), other crime (101) and anti-social behaviour (74). A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Grove was 52.2 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 Grove, neighbourhood by neighbourhood - Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Grove has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank: - Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Grove | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Vale of White Horse 011A](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse/neighbourhood/e01028721) | 1,243 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% | | [Vale of White Horse 011B](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse/neighbourhood/e01028722) | 1,551 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.5% | | [Vale of White Horse 011C](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse/neighbourhood/e01028723) | 2,233 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.0% | | [Vale of White Horse 011D](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse/neighbourhood/e01028724) | 1,190 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% | | [Vale of White Horse 011E](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse/neighbourhood/e01028725) | 2,909 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.6% | ## Your MP - [Didcot and Wantage](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/didcot-and-wantage): Olly Glover (Liberal Democrat), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Vale of White Horse](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse) ## Postcode districts covering Grove [OX12](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ox12) ## Middle areas in Grove [Grove](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse/grove) ## Towns near Grove [Wantage](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wantage), [Abingdon-on-Thames](https://openindex.co.uk/town/abingdon-on-thames), [Didcot](https://openindex.co.uk/town/didcot), [Faringdon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/faringdon), [Oxford](https://openindex.co.uk/oxford), [Carterton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/carterton) ## Grove in brief Grove is a town in Vale of White Horse, South East. About 9,094 people lived in Grove in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £343,900 in 2025 across 205 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk). The median price paid for a home in Grove was £343,900 in 2025. Grove had 7,942 usual residents at the census. About 31% of people in Grove live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. In Grove, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63004778 - Constituency: [Didcot and Wantage †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/didcot-and-wantage) - Council: [Vale of White Horse †](https://openindex.co.uk/vale-of-white-horse) - Region: [South East](https://openindex.co.uk/south-east) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 1.93 km² - People, mid-2024: 9,094* - Neighbourhoods: 5 - Output areas: 26 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Wantage](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wantage), [Abingdon-on-Thames](https://openindex.co.uk/town/abingdon-on-thames), [Didcot](https://openindex.co.uk/town/didcot), [Faringdon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/faringdon), [Oxford](https://openindex.co.uk/oxford), [Carterton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/carterton) ## Latest updates for Grove - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. - GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63004778 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/grove, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/grove#f-house-sales-median-price. Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 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