Crime Statistics for Highfield, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highfield in August 2024. There were a total of 191 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting68
Violent Crime53
Anti Social Behaviour20
Criminal Damage Arson14
Public Order12
Other Theft8
Drugs5
Bicycle Theft4
Burglary3
Vehicle Crime2
Possession Of Weapons1
Other Crime1
All Crime191

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 Highfield. 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 Highfield

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Highfield191
Bicester (0.88 miles)188
Launton (1.96 miles)58
Caversfield (1.39 miles)30
Chesterton (1.39 miles)22
Bainton (1.96 miles)9
Ardley (3.1 miles)7
Stratton Audley (2.63 miles)4
Little Chesterton (2.24 miles)4
Bucknell (1.39 miles)3

16.4%
of Bicester West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Highfield?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Highfield53
Bicester51
Launton19
Caversfield14
Chesterton11
Ardley4
Bainton3
Stratton Audley2
Little Chesterton1
Bucknell0

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

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 Highfield 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 Highfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bicester West52
2Bicester East50
3Bicester South and Ambrosden44
4Bicester North and Caversfield30
5Fringford and Heyfords27
6Launton and Otmoor26
7Kidlington West23
8Grendon Underwood & Brill12
9Marsh Gibbon5
10Little Brook4
11Stonesfield and Tackley2

Which road in Highfield has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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