Crime Statistics for Hardwick, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hardwick in October 2024. There were a total of 309 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 Hardwick, 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	130
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Public Order	27
Shoplifting	22
Drugs	19
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	15
Vehicle Crime	12
Burglary	10
Other Crime	5
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	309

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 Hardwick. 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 Hardwick

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ruscote	498
Hardwick	309
Grimsbury (1.39 miles)	262
Neithrop (0.62 miles)	236
Banbury (0.88 miles)	205
Calthorpe (1.75 miles)	200
Easington (1.39 miles)	143
Hanwell (1.39 miles)	105
Drayton (1.24 miles)	22
North Newington (1.76 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Hardwick?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ruscote	229
Banbury	228
Grimsbury	145
Hardwick	130
Neithrop	117
Calthorpe	80
Easington	60
Hanwell	52
Drayton	7
North Newington	2

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

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 Hardwick 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 Hardwick compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hardwick and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Hardwick have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Kings Sutton.

#	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	Cropredy, Sibfords and Wroxton	17
7	Adderbury, Bloxham and Bodicote	16
8	Red Horse	14
9	Middleton Cheney	12
10	Deddington	10
11	Kings Sutton	7

Which road in Hardwick has the highest level of crime?

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