# Wallingford Town in South Oxfordshire, South East. Wallingford is a town in South Oxfordshire, South East. Median sale price £467,500 in 2025. Recorded crime 53.0 per 1,000 people. About 8,735 people. Town. Code E63004784. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [South Oxfordshire](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire) 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £467,500** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Wallingford was £467,500 in 2025. 102nd 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/wallingford#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 8,455** (2021). Wallingford had 8,455 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 105th 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/wallingford#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Wallingford 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/wallingford#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 79.4%** (January 2026). In Wallingford, 79.4% 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/wallingford#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=E63004784) (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. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year#place=E63004784) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 166 homes were sold in Wallingford in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime#place=E63004784) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Wallingford. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=E63004784) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Wallingford had 8,455 usual residents at the census. ## How Wallingford compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Wallingford | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £467,500 | 53rd most expensive | 209 towns, South East · 2025 | | Population | 8,455 | 20th least populated | 209 towns, South East · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 209 towns, South East · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 79.4% | 25th lowest | 209 towns, South East · Jan 2026 | ## 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 Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Wallingford | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [South Oxfordshire 012B](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire/neighbourhood/e01028617) | 2,086 | 44.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 71.4% | | [South Oxfordshire 012C](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire/neighbourhood/e01028674) | 1,339 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.2% | | [South Oxfordshire 012D](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire/neighbourhood/e01028675) | 1,353 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% | | [South Oxfordshire 012E](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire/neighbourhood/e01028676) | 2,265 | 41.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.0% | | [South Oxfordshire 012F](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire/neighbourhood/e01028677) | 1,413 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 64.0% | ## 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 [South Oxfordshire](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire) ## Postcode districts covering Wallingford [OX10](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ox10) ## Middle areas in Wallingford [Wallingford & Brightwell](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire/wallingford-and-brightwell) ## Towns near Wallingford [Didcot](https://openindex.co.uk/town/didcot), [Abingdon-on-Thames](https://openindex.co.uk/town/abingdon-on-thames), [Oxford](https://openindex.co.uk/oxford), [Reading](https://openindex.co.uk/town/reading), [Henley-on-Thames](https://openindex.co.uk/town/henley-on-thames), [Caversham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/caversham) ## 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. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63004784 - Constituency: [Didcot and Wantage †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/didcot-and-wantage) - Council: [South Oxfordshire †](https://openindex.co.uk/south-oxfordshire) - Region: [South East](https://openindex.co.uk/south-east) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 2.52 km² - People, mid-2024: 8,735* - 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 [Didcot](https://openindex.co.uk/town/didcot), [Abingdon-on-Thames](https://openindex.co.uk/town/abingdon-on-thames), [Oxford](https://openindex.co.uk/oxford), [Reading](https://openindex.co.uk/town/reading), [Henley-on-Thames](https://openindex.co.uk/town/henley-on-thames), [Caversham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/caversham) ## Latest updates for Wallingford - August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026. - September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026. - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63004784 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/wallingford, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/wallingford#f-house-sales-median-price. 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