Crime Statistics for Ardington, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ardington in September 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ardington, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	2

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ardington. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Ardington

We've taken the ten nearest places to Ardington and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Ardington has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Charlton (1.86 miles)	79
Wantage (1.96 miles)	49
Harwell (3.77 miles)	20
Milton Heights (3.62 miles)	18
Townsend (3.16 miles)	12
Ardington Wick (0.62 miles)	10
Milton Hill (2.77 miles)	6
Chilton (3.62 miles)	4
Ardington	2
Rowstock (2.56 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Ardington?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Ardington and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Charlton	36
Wantage	28
Harwell	8
Milton Heights	7
Townsend	6
Ardington Wick	6
Milton Hill	3
Chilton	2
Ardington	1
Rowstock	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Ardington?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Ardington to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Ardington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ardington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ardington is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Wantage Charlton	35
2	Didcot West	34
3	Wantage & Grove Brook	24
4	Grove North	19
5	Steventon & the Hanneys	17
6	Downlands	13
7	Hendreds	13
8	Ridgeway	12
9	Blewbury & Harwell	10
10	Kingston Bagpuize	7
11	Drayton	5

Which road in Ardington has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Ardington with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.