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Long Wittenham

Long Wittenham is a village in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of around 876. There are 3 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Appleford, 2.1 km away. There were around 1 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly other crime. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Long Wittenham area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the South Oxfordshire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 149,082 residents at roughly 220 people per km².

Council
South Oxfordshire
County
Oxfordshire
Constituency
Wantage
Police force
Thames Valley
63/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 55th of 294 English council areas — better than 81% of them.

Low crime96
Home affordability29
Affordable rents45
Good schools15
Life expectancy93
Low deprivation97
Employment98
Low council tax13

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: 10° / 6° · 24% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:05Sunset 16:30

9h 25m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Oxford St Ebbes, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.7 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

2 reported · August 2026▼ 50% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences2

Neighbourhood team: Wallingford, Berinsfield and Cholsey · Thames Valley

Local policing priorities

  • Reduce drug-related offending and knife-enabled crime
  • Reduce the frequency and impact of anti-social behaviour and disorder

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

Road safety

142 reported road collisions (2025)

29 killed or seriously injured · 175 casualties · 9.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

12 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 10 rated 4–5 ★ (9 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Appleford (2.1 km)
  • 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Appleford (2.1 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£471,427 average▲ 2.2% YoY

Across South Oxfordshire · to 2026-08

Detached£770,493
Semi-detached£451,346
Terraced£372,708
Flat£235,476

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,402 average monthly rent▲ 3.5% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,042
  • 2 bed £1,292
  • 3 bed £1,615

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

Affordability

10.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.0 times median annual pay (10.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,943 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 (7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 199.9p · Asda (7 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

31 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: The Chequers (2.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches6
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

149,082 residents in South Oxfordshire · 220/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,385
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,362
  • Net moves+2,023

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 287 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,598 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 67,120)

A £1,732
B £2,020
C £2,309
D £2,598
E £3,175
F £3,752
G £4,329
H £5,195

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

Schools

85 schools · 25,829 pupils

57 primary · 9 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 22 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Gillotts SchoolOutstanding
  • Langtree SchoolGood
  • Lord Williams's SchoolGood
  • Maiden Erlegh Chiltern EdgeGood
  • Didcot Girls' School
  • Icknield Community College
  • St Birinus School
  • Wallingford School
  • Wheatley Park School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Oxfordshire

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 (Long Wittenham Conservation Area)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 38 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

304 applications decided

96.1% granted · 292 granted, 12 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Olly Glover

Liberal Democrat

Didcot and Wantage

Recent votes:

  • NoRailways Bill: Carry-over extension (Motion)
  • AyeSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: New Clause 1
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Lab 3
  • Con 1
  • LD 20
  • Grn 8
  • Oth 4

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

8,790 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

13 jobs advertised · £35,000 avg

e.g. Office Cleaners, Commercial Cleaners for Offices, Commercial Cleaners

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£935 median full-time weekly pay

1.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£35,652 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 67,091 certificates

9.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

40% low-carbon electricity

Gas 58% · Wind 23% · Biomass 9% · Nuclear 8%

240 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 86.1 yrs women · 82.2 yrs men

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

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.8
  • Feeling worthwhile7.9
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

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

Health services

10 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in OX14

  • Malthouse Surgery
  • Clifton Hampden Surgery
  • Marcham Rd Family Health Centre

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

  • Long Wittenham · 0.3 km

    Long Wittenham is a village and small civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) north of Didcot, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it from Berks…

  • Sylva Foundation · 0.5 km

    The Sylva Foundation is an environmental organisation focusing on trees and forestry established in 2006, and registered as a charity in England and Wales in 2009 and with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator…

  • Pendon Museum · 0.5 km

    Pendon Museum is a museum in Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire, England, that displays scale models, in particular a large scene representing parts of the Vale of White Horse in the 1920s and 1930s. The scene, under constru…

  • Clifton Lock · 0.9 km

    Clifton Lock is a lock on River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is located south of the village of Clifton Hampden and north of Long Wittenham. It is at the start of the Clifton Cut, which bypasses the river to the…

  • Paradise Wood · 1.0 km

    Paradise Wood is a research woodland established by the Earth Trust between the villages of Little Wittenham and Long Wittenham in Oxfordshire England. It has evolved to become the largest collection of hardwood for…

  • The Barley Mow, Clifton Hampden · 1.5 km

    The Barley Mow is a historic public house, just south of the River Thames near the bridge at Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Long Wittenham?
Long Wittenham is a town in Oxfordshire, England, in the South Oxfordshire local authority.
What is the population of Long Wittenham?
Long Wittenham has an approximate settlement population of 876.
How deprived is Long Wittenham?
The South Oxfordshire local authority, which includes Long Wittenham, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.