Crime Statistics for Grimsbury, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grimsbury in August 2024. There were a total of 255 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Grimsbury, 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	101
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Public Order	29
Shoplifting	26
Other Theft	16
Drugs	13
Vehicle Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Burglary	6
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	255

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hardwick (1.39 miles)	430
Banbury (0.62 miles)	271
Grimsbury	255
Ruscote (1.39 miles)	225
Neithrop (1.24 miles)	178
Nethercote (0.88 miles)	129
Calthorpe (0.62 miles)	114
Easington (0.88 miles)	108
Bodicote (1.86 miles)	19
Warkworth (1.24 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Grimsbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hardwick	172
Banbury	126
Grimsbury	101
Easington	94
Ruscote	91
Neithrop	83
Calthorpe	44
Nethercote	34
Bodicote	11
Warkworth	4

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

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 Grimsbury 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 Grimsbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Grimsbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Grimsbury is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Banbury Ruscote	70
2	Banbury Cross and Neithrop	56
3	Banbury Grimsbury and Hightown	49
4	Banbury Hardwick	41
5	Banbury Calthorpe and Easington	28
6	Adderbury, Bloxham and Bodicote	16
7	The Bartons	15
8	Middleton Cheney	12
9	Deddington	10
10	Kings Sutton	7
11	Steane	5

Which road in Grimsbury has the highest level of crime?

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