Wantage
TownTown in Vale of White Horse, South East.
Wantage is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wantage 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 Wantage live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wantage compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wantage safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wantage at a rate of 60.5 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, 97 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wantage.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (378), other crime (191) and anti-social behaviour (128).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wantage was 73.3 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 Wantage, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wantage has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wantage
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vale of White Horse 014A | 1,814 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.3% |
| Vale of White Horse 014C | 1,712 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Vale of White Horse 014D | 1,762 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.5% |
| Vale of White Horse 014E | 1,237 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Vale of White Horse 014F | 1,237 | 62.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.7% |
| Vale of White Horse 014G | 1,138 | 197.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.2% |
| Vale of White Horse 014H | 1,166 | 86.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.7% |
| Vale of White Horse 015F | 2,244 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 82.7% |
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 Wantage1
Middle areas in Wantage1
Towns near Wantage6
Wantage in brief
Wantage is a town in Vale of White Horse, South East.
About 14,849 people lived in Wantage in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £360,000 in 2025 across 232 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 60.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wantage was £360,000 in 2025.
Wantage had 13,100 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wantage live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wantage, 89.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.