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East Hendred

East Hendred is a town or village in Oxfordshire, England. There are 5 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Didcot Halt, 6.7 km away. In June 2026, there were around 5 recorded street crimes, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the East Hendred area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Vale of White Horse area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 138,913 residents at roughly 240 people per km².

Council
Vale of White Horse
County
Oxfordshire
Constituency
Wantage
Police force
Thames Valley
69/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 20th of 294 English council areas — better than 93% of them.

Low crime93
Home affordability41
Affordable rents51
Good schools55
Life expectancy86
Low deprivation94
Employment94
Low council tax17

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°COvercast

  • Today: 11° / 7° · 28% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:35

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Oxford St Ebbes, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

3 reported · August 2026▼ 25% YoY

  • Criminal damage & arson1
  • Other theft1
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Wantage and Grove · Thames Valley

Local policing priorities

  • Tackling Anti-social behaviour (ASB)
  • Retail Crime within the Town centre of Wantage and surrounding villages

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

147 reported road collisions (2025)

39 killed or seriously injured · 170 casualties · 10.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

27 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 24 rated 4–5 ★ (22 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Didcot Halt (6.7 km)
  • 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Didcot Parkway (6.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£411,712 average▲ 4.6% YoY

Across Vale of White Horse · to 2026-08

Detached£662,416
Semi-detached£402,480
Terraced£325,936
Flat£209,356

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,352 average monthly rent▲ 2.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £987
  • 2 bed £1,230
  • 3 bed £1,503

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

8.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.9 times median annual pay (9.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,018 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 173.9p · Asda (8.4 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 199.9p · Asda (8.4 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

26 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: Rutherford Appleton Lab reception Car Park (2.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres3
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches12
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

138,913 residents in Vale of White Horse · 240/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,643
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,391
  • Net moves+2,252

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 280 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,577 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (30% of 64,770)

A £1,718
B £2,005
C £2,291
D £2,577
E £3,150
F £3,723
G £4,296
H £5,155

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

73 schools · 24,091 pupils

50 primary · 8 secondary · 15 other

Ofsted: 17 of 19 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

61 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Faringdon Community CollegeGood
  • King Alfred'sGood
  • UTC OxfordshireGood
  • Aureus School
  • Fitzharrys School
  • John Mason School
  • Larkmead School
  • Matthew Arnold School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Vale of White Horse

Care & health services

672 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes149
  • GP practices107
  • Dentists167
  • Homecare agencies173
  • Hospitals & hospices16

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Oxfordshire

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (East Hendred Conservation Area)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 88 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

201 applications decided

95.5% granted · 192 granted, 9 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Olly Glover

Liberal Democrat

Didcot and Wantage

Recent votes:

  • AyeOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Con 1
  • LD 31
  • Grn 3
  • Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,165 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

14 jobs advertised · £34,620 avg

e.g. IT Support & Infrastructure Engineer, Commercial Cleaners for Offices, Technical Support Specialist

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£827 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£31,081 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

56% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 70,187 certificates

8.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

50% low-carbon electricity

Gas 45% · Wind 26% · Biomass 13% · Nuclear 10%

194 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.9 yrs women · 82.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Oxfordshire): 66.6 women · 65.4 men

62% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.7
  • Feeling worthwhile8.0
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

4 GP surgeries · 4 pharmacies in OX12

  • Newbury Street Practice
  • Church Street Practice
  • Pml Neighbourhood Hub (Wantage)

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Didcot and Wantage:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • East Hendred · 0.1 km

    East Hendred is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot. The village is on East Hendred Brook, which flows from the Berkshire…

  • Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred · 0.1 km

    The Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred is a local village museum housed in the former Chapel of Jesus of Bethlehem, built in 1453 by Carthusian monks and now commonly called Champs Chapel, at East Hendred in the Eng…

  • Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred · 0.4 km

    Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred was briefly a convent of contemplative Benedictine nuns situated in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, from 2004 to 2012, forming part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmou…

  • West Hendred · 1.1 km

    West Hendred is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) east of Wantage. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. West Hendred is downland village, its parish str…

  • Mammalian Genetics Unit · 2.2 km

    The Mammalian Genetics Unit was a genetics and genomics research institute in Oxfordshire.

  • Priory Cottages, Steventon · 2.6 km

    Priory Cottages is a 14th-century manor house and former monastic grange which had the status of a priory at Steventon in the English county of Oxfordshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is East Hendred?
East Hendred is a town in Oxfordshire, England, in the Vale of White Horse local authority.
How deprived is East Hendred?
The Vale of White Horse local authority, which includes East Hendred, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.