Abingdon-on-Thames
TownTown in Vale of White Horse, South East.
Abingdon-on-Thames is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Abingdon-on-Thames 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Abingdon-on-Thames, 90.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Abingdon-on-Thames compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Abingdon-on-Thames safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Abingdon-on-Thames at a rate of 68.5 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, 182 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Abingdon-on-Thames.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (888), other crime (486) and anti-social behaviour (317).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Abingdon-on-Thames was 70.0 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 Abingdon-on-Thames, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Abingdon-on-Thames has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Abingdon-on-Thames
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vale of White Horse 004A | 1,517 | 21.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Vale of White Horse 004B | 1,411 | 17.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% |
| Vale of White Horse 004C | 1,548 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.3% |
| Vale of White Horse 004D | 1,238 | 11.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Vale of White Horse 004E | 1,395 | 14.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| Vale of White Horse 004F | 1,443 | 10.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| Vale of White Horse 005A | 1,127 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% |
| Vale of White Horse 005B | 1,404 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.9% |
| Vale of White Horse 005C | 1,607 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Vale of White Horse 005D | 1,601 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.6% |
| Vale of White Horse 006B | 1,438 | 80.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.6% |
| Vale of White Horse 006C | 1,606 | 91.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.5% |
| Vale of White Horse 006D | 1,425 | 290.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 80.6% |
| Vale of White Horse 006E | 1,654 | 113.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.7% |
| Vale of White Horse 006F | 1,705 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.5% |
| Vale of White Horse 006G | 1,310 | 100.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 61.1% |
| Vale of White Horse 006H | 1,843 | 233.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 69.3% |
| Vale of White Horse 008A | 1,584 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Vale of White Horse 008B | 1,783 | 34.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
| Vale of White Horse 008C | 1,444 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Vale of White Horse 008D | 1,227 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Vale of White Horse 008E | 1,866 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.8% |
Your MP
- Layla MoranLiberal DemocratMP for Oxford West and Abingdon
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Postcode districts covering Abingdon-on-Thames1
Middle areas in Abingdon-on-Thames4
Towns near Abingdon-on-Thames6
Abingdon-on-Thames in brief
Abingdon-on-Thames is a town in Vale of White Horse, South East.
About 32,953 people lived in Abingdon-on-Thames 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 488 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 68.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Abingdon-on-Thames was £350,000 in 2025.
Abingdon-on-Thames had 33,179 usual residents at the census.
In Abingdon-on-Thames, 90.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Abingdon-on-Thames, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.