Crime Statistics for Kennington, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, 2024

Is Kennington rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 76 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Kennington, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime24
Shoplifting11
Other Theft11
Criminal Damage Arson8
Drugs6
Anti Social Behaviour5
Other Crime3
Public Order3
Vehicle Crime2
Possession Of Weapons2
Burglary1
All Crime76

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blackird Leys (1.96 miles)457
Temple Cowley (1.75 miles)397
Iffley (0.62 miles)246
Littlemore (0.62 miles)130
Kennington76
Sandford-on-Thames (0.88 miles)52
New Hinksey (1.39 miles)38
Little London (0.62 miles)7
Bayworth (1.39 miles)6
South Hinksey (1.75 miles)4

14.73%
of Kennington & Radley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Kennington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blackird Leys164
Iffley140
Temple Cowley115
Littlemore44
Sandford-on-Thames27
Kennington24
New Hinksey14
Bayworth2
South Hinksey2
Little London1

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

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 Kennington 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 Kennington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kennington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kennington is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Littlemore74
2Northfield Brook68
3St Mary's67
4Rose Hill and Iffley63
5Cowley57
6Iffley Fields54
7Kennington & Radley11
8Botley & Sunningwell9
9Wootton9
10Cumnor8
11Abingdon Peachcroft7

Which road in Kennington has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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