Wallingford
TownTown in South Oxfordshire, South East.
Wallingford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wallingford 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 0% of people in Wallingford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wallingford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wallingford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wallingford at a rate of 53.0 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, 28 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wallingford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (189), other crime (89) and anti-social behaviour (59).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wallingford was 57.7 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 Wallingford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wallingford has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 7: 3 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 Wallingford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Oxfordshire 012B | 2,086 | 44.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 71.4% |
| South Oxfordshire 012C | 1,339 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.2% |
| South Oxfordshire 012D | 1,353 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| South Oxfordshire 012E | 2,265 | 41.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.0% |
| South Oxfordshire 012F | 1,413 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 64.0% |
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 Wallingford1
Middle areas in Wallingford1
Towns near Wallingford6
Wallingford in brief
Wallingford is a town in South Oxfordshire, South East.
About 8,735 people lived in Wallingford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £467,500 in 2025 across 166 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wallingford was £467,500 in 2025.
Wallingford had 8,455 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wallingford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wallingford, 79.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.