Crime Statistics for Blenheim, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blenheim in October 2024. There were a total of 58 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Blenheim, 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	24
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Drugs	10
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Burglary	3
Other Theft	3
Public Order	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	58

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Blenheim. 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 Blenheim

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackird Leys (1.39 miles)	532
Temple Cowley (2.24 miles)	481
Blenheim	58
Horspath (1.24 miles)	55
Littleworth (1.96 miles)	8
Garsington (0.62 miles)	2
Southend (0.88 miles)	1
Toot Baldon (1.39 miles)	0
Baldon Row (1.39 miles)	0
Cuddesdon (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Blenheim?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blackird Leys	201
Temple Cowley	115
Blenheim	24
Horspath	24
Littleworth	6
Garsington	2
Southend	1
Toot Baldon	0
Baldon Row	0
Cuddesdon	0

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

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 Blenheim 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 Blenheim compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blenheim and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blenheim is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Blackbird Leys	76
2	Littlemore	74
3	Northfield Brook	68
4	Rose Hill and Iffley	63
5	Cowley	57
6	Iffley Fields	54
7	Cowley Marsh	52
8	Lye Valley	34
9	Garsington & Horspath	32
10	Wheatley	19
11	Kennington & Radley	11

Which road in Blenheim has the highest level of crime?

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