Grove
TownTown in Vale of White Horse, South East.
Grove is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Grove 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 Grove, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Grove compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Grove safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Grove at a rate of 59.8 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, 61 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Grove.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (248), other crime (101) and anti-social behaviour (74).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Grove was 52.2 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 Grove, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Grove has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Grove
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vale of White Horse 011A | 1,243 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| Vale of White Horse 011B | 1,551 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.5% |
| Vale of White Horse 011C | 2,233 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.0% |
| Vale of White Horse 011D | 1,190 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% |
| Vale of White Horse 011E | 2,909 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.6% |
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 Grove1
Middle areas in Grove1
Towns near Grove6
Grove in brief
Grove is a town in Vale of White Horse, South East.
About 9,094 people lived in Grove in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £343,900 in 2025 across 205 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Grove was £343,900 in 2025.
Grove had 7,942 usual residents at the census.
In Grove, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Grove, 2.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.