Crime Statistics for Brightwell-***-Sotwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brightwell-cum-Sotwell in September 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Shoplifting.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
Shoplifting1
Public Order1
All Crime3

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 Brightwell-cum-Sotwell. 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 Brightwell-cum-Sotwell

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Crowmarsh Gifford (1.96 miles)50
Wallingford (1.39 miles)49
Benson (1.96 miles)38
Littleworth (1.96 miles)38
Cholsey (2.49 miles)24
Warborough (1.96 miles)6
Shillingford (1.39 miles)5
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell3
North Moreton (1.39 miles)0
South Moreton (1.76 miles)0

8.65%
of Cholsey residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Brightwell-cum-Sotwell?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Littleworth30
Crowmarsh Gifford26
Wallingford24
Benson15
Cholsey6
Warborough3
Shillingford3
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell0
North Moreton0
South Moreton0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell?

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 Brightwell-cum-Sotwell 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 Brightwell-cum-Sotwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brightwell-cum-Sotwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brightwell-cum-Sotwell is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Didcot South41
2Sandford & the Wittenhams37
3Didcot West34
4Berinsfield21
5Wallingford21
6Cholsey18
7Didcot North East13
8Goring7
9Chalgrove6
10Benson & Crowmarsh6
11Sutton Courtenay5

Which road in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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