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Electoral wardE05012978

Wantage & Grove Brook ward, Vale of White Horse

Wantage & Grove Brook is one of 24 electoral wards of Vale of White Horse District Council, in Oxfordshire (South East). At the 2021 Census it had 7,729 residents in 3,335 households — 2,022 people per km², the 4th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Didcot and Wantage constituency; for county elections it is in the Wantage West division.

Residents, 20217,729council ward average 5,810
Households3,3352.32 residents per household
Density2,022/ km²about 3.82 km² · Vale of White Horse 239
Aged 65+21.7%Vale of White Horse: 19.8% · under 16: 18.7%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–45.6% · 435
5–96.2% · 477
10–156.9% · 531
16–193.4% · 264
20–244.4% · 343
25–3413.2% · 1,018
35–4919.6% · 1,518
50–6419.0% · 1,467
65–7411.3% · 873
75–847.1% · 549
85+3.3% · 253

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van12.8% · 428
1 car or van40.7% · 1,358
2 cars or vans34.6% · 1,154
3 or more11.8% · 395
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Vale of White Horse overall: 68.3% owned, 14.2% social rented, 15.6% private rented.

Owned outright39.2% · 1,306
With mortgage30.6% · 1,020
Shared ownership2.4% · 79
Social rented14.4% · 480
Private rented13.5% · 449

Type of home

Detached house33.3% · 1,110
Semi-detached house27.0% · 900
Terraced house23.4% · 780
Purpose-built flat13.0% · 432
Converted house0.7% · 24
Other conversion0.5% · 17
Above shop / office0.2% · 6
Caravan, mobile2.0% · 66
Electoral geography

Ward facts

Ward code (GSS)
E05012978
County division
Wantage West
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage
Region
South East
Density rank in council
6 of 24

Parishes in the ward

GroveWantage

Other wards in the same constituency

BBlewbury & Harwell16.2% aged 65+ · 71.5% owned9,240DDrayton18.2% aged 65+ · 73.4% owned3,769GGrove North16.2% aged 65+ · 72.1% owned6,498HHendreds17.7% aged 65+ · 62.3% owned3,343RRidgeway25.2% aged 65+ · 73.1% owned3,139SStanford22.9% aged 65+ · 71.5% owned3,833SSteventon & the Hanneys20.8% aged 65+ · 72.1% owned4,207SSutton Courtenay18.4% aged 65+ · 71.7% owned3,405WWantage Charlton21.4% aged 65+ · 64.3% owned7,211

All 24 wards of Vale of White Horse

Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0Census figures for this ward as published on 2022 ward boundaries, which still apply.