Witney
TownTown in West Oxfordshire, South East.
Witney is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Witney 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 99% of people in Witney live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Witney compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Witney safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Witney at a rate of 63.1 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, 136 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Witney.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (862), other crime (373) and anti-social behaviour (287).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Witney was 70.4 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 Witney, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Witney has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Witney
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Oxfordshire 008A | 1,287 | 23.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| West Oxfordshire 008B | 1,376 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| West Oxfordshire 008D | 1,301 | 81.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| West Oxfordshire 008E | 1,442 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.6% |
| West Oxfordshire 008F | 1,208 | 8.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.9% |
| West Oxfordshire 008G | 1,858 | 33.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.1% |
| West Oxfordshire 008H | 1,942 | 39.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.8% |
| West Oxfordshire 008I | 1,359 | 21.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.3% |
| West Oxfordshire 009A | 1,466 | 93.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| West Oxfordshire 009B | 2,789 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.3% |
| West Oxfordshire 009C | 1,386 | 36.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| West Oxfordshire 009D | 1,445 | 20.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.7% |
| West Oxfordshire 010A | 2,156 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 76.0% |
| West Oxfordshire 010B | 2,327 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| West Oxfordshire 010C | 1,288 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| West Oxfordshire 010D | 1,434 | 24.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| West Oxfordshire 010E | 1,653 | 316.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.6% |
| West Oxfordshire 010F | 1,912 | 100.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
Your MP
- Charlie MaynardLiberal DemocratMP for Witney
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 Witney2
Middle areas in Witney3
Towns near Witney6
Witney in brief
Witney is a town in West Oxfordshire, South East.
About 32,289 people lived in Witney in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 511 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 63.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Witney was £350,000 in 2025.
Witney had 30,167 usual residents at the census.
About 99% of people in Witney live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Witney, 93.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.