Thame
TownTown in South Oxfordshire, South East.
Thame is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thame 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 58% of people in Thame live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thame compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thame safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thame at a rate of 54.7 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thame.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (259), other crime (149) and shoplifting (103).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thame was 46.4 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 Thame, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thame has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Thame
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Oxfordshire 001A | 1,467 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 76.0% |
| South Oxfordshire 001B | 1,310 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| South Oxfordshire 001C | 1,278 | 14.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.0% |
| South Oxfordshire 001D | 1,325 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.0% |
| South Oxfordshire 003A | 1,481 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| South Oxfordshire 003B | 1,630 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.1% |
| South Oxfordshire 003C | 2,767 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.3% |
| South Oxfordshire 003D | 2,010 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Freddie van MierloLiberal DemocratMP for Henley and Thame
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 Thame1
Middle areas in Thame2
Towns near Thame6
Thame in brief
Thame is a town in South Oxfordshire, South East.
About 13,221 people lived in Thame in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £450,000 in 2025 across 245 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thame was £450,000 in 2025.
Thame had 12,952 usual residents at the census.
About 58% of people in Thame live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thame, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.