Crime Statistics for Ambrosden, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ambrosden in September 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Theft From The Person.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ambrosden, 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	7
Theft From The Person	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	9

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 Ambrosden. 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 Ambrosden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Highfield (3.1 miles)	191
Bicester (2.24 miles)	188
Launton (1.86 miles)	58
Ray (0.76 miles)	24
Chesterton (2.77 miles)	22
Blackthorn (1.24 miles)	15
Ambrosden	9
Upper Arncott (1.39 miles)	7
Lower Arncott (0.62 miles)	6
Fencott (2.63 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Ambrosden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Highfield	53
Bicester	51
Ray	36
Launton	19
Blackthorn	13
Chesterton	11
Ambrosden	7
Upper Arncott	5
Lower Arncott	4
Fencott	0

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

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 Ambrosden 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 Ambrosden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ambrosden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ambrosden is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Barton and Sandhills	56
2	Bicester West	52
3	Bicester East	50
4	Bicester South and Ambrosden	44
5	Forest Hill & Holton	38
6	Bicester North and Caversfield	30
7	Launton and Otmoor	26
8	Kidlington East	20
9	Grendon Underwood & Brill	12
10	Quainton	6
11	Marsh Gibbon	5

Which road in Ambrosden has the highest level of crime?

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