Neighbourhoods in Vale of White Horse
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14 neighbourhoods · 81 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Grove | £1,168 | +1.7% | 43 | 78 |
| Abingdon South | £1,197 | +1.7% | 62 | 82 |
| Wantage Town | £1,203 | +1.7% | 30 | 72 |
| Abingdon Town & West | £1,206 | +1.7% | 16 | 39 |
| Faringdon & Stanford | £1,225 | +1.7% | 14 | 60 |
| Abingdon Audlett Drive & Farm Road | £1,247 | +1.7% | 67 | 88 |
| Abingdon Northcourt & Peachcroft | £1,289 | +1.7% | 70 | 99 |
| Shrivenham, Watchfield & Uffington | £1,315 | +1.7% | 7 | 82 |
| South Wantage, Harwell & Blewbury | £1,351 | +1.7% | 20 | 79 |
| Botley & Kennington | £1,457 | +1.7% | 56 | 94 |
| Radley, Wootton & Marcham | £1,465 | +1.7% | 28 | 86 |
| Kingston Bagpuize & East Hanney | £1,477 | +1.7% | 4 | 91 |
| Sutton Courtenay, Drayton & Steventon | £1,482 | +1.7% | 5 | 78 |
| Dean Court, Cumnor & Appleton | £1,556 | +1.7% | 29 | 93 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Vale of White Horse
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Vale of White Horse. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Vale of White Horse median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Vale of White Horse.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Vale of White Horse
Crime in Vale of White Horse runs at 2.1× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#63 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 48.2, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Vale of White Horse
100% of schools serving Vale of White Horse are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Vale of White Horse
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Vale of White Horse
Vale of White Horse has 0.51 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Vale of White Horse
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Vale of White Horse?
- The median monthly rent across Vale of White Horse is £1,332, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Vale of White Horse?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Vale of White Horse by estimated median rent is Grove at approximately £1,168/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Vale of White Horse?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Vale of White Horse is Abingdon Northcourt & Peachcroft at 70/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Vale of White Horse a safe area?
- Vale of White Horse has an average safety score of 75/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Vale of White Horse?
- The most common council tax band in Vale of White Horse is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £272. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Vale of White Horse.
- What is the average salary in Vale of White Horse?
- The median annual resident salary in Vale of White Horse is £38,859, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Vale of White Horse, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Vale of White Horse?
- The average property price in Vale of White Horse is approximately £408,653 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Vale of White Horse?
- Gross rental yield in Vale of White Horse is approximately 3.7% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Vale of White Horse?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 5.1 years in Vale of White Horse. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Vale of White Horse?
- 100% of premises in Vale of White Horse are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Vale of White Horse?
- 2.1% of 16-64 residents in Vale of White Horse are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Vale of White Horse?
- Vale of White Horse contains 14 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 81 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Vale of White Horse
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Vale of White Horse 008E
- Vale of White Horse 002F
- Vale of White Horse 006H
- Vale of White Horse 006C
- Vale of White Horse 004B
- Vale of White Horse 002D
- Vale of White Horse 006F
- Vale of White Horse 003A
- Vale of White Horse 002C
- Vale of White Horse 001B
- Vale of White Horse 006G
- Vale of White Horse 014G
- Vale of White Horse 003C
- Vale of White Horse 005B
- Vale of White Horse 004C
- Vale of White Horse 002E
- Vale of White Horse 008B
- Vale of White Horse 005A
- Vale of White Horse 005C
- Vale of White Horse 009A
- Vale of White Horse 005D
- Vale of White Horse 007C
- Vale of White Horse 016E
- Vale of White Horse 011B
- Vale of White Horse 001D
- Vale of White Horse 004E
- Vale of White Horse 015E
- Vale of White Horse 002B
- Vale of White Horse 001C
- Vale of White Horse 016F
- Vale of White Horse 003B
- Vale of White Horse 001A
- Vale of White Horse 016D
- Vale of White Horse 006E
- Vale of White Horse 006D
- Vale of White Horse 008A
- Vale of White Horse 011E
- Vale of White Horse 009B
- Vale of White Horse 014D
- Vale of White Horse 014H
- Vale of White Horse 015H
- Vale of White Horse 016A
- Vale of White Horse 004F
- Vale of White Horse 015A
- Vale of White Horse 002A
- Vale of White Horse 009C
- Vale of White Horse 010C
- Vale of White Horse 014C
- Vale of White Horse 007E
- Vale of White Horse 004A
- Vale of White Horse 008C
- Vale of White Horse 007D
- Vale of White Horse 007A
- Vale of White Horse 010D
- Vale of White Horse 011C
- Vale of White Horse 016G
- Vale of White Horse 015F
- Vale of White Horse 003G
- Vale of White Horse 010B
- Vale of White Horse 009E
- Vale of White Horse 016C
- Vale of White Horse 003E
- Vale of White Horse 015D
- Vale of White Horse 014E
- Vale of White Horse 011A
- Vale of White Horse 011D
- Vale of White Horse 010F
- Vale of White Horse 009D
- Vale of White Horse 003F
- Vale of White Horse 004D
- Vale of White Horse 006B
- Vale of White Horse 015G
- Vale of White Horse 014A
- Vale of White Horse 010G
- Vale of White Horse 008D
- Vale of White Horse 015I
- Vale of White Horse 010E
- Vale of White Horse 003D
- Vale of White Horse 014F
- Vale of White Horse 016B
Showing 80 of 81 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.