Crime Statistics for Kidlington, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kidlington in August 2024. There were a total of 123 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 Kidlington, 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 Crime41
Anti Social Behaviour22
Criminal Damage Arson18
Shoplifting12
Public Order7
Other Theft5
Other Crime4
Drugs4
Vehicle Crime4
Robbery2
Burglary2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime123

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 Kidlington. 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 Kidlington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cutteslowe (1.96 miles)98
Kidlington92
Gosford66
Cherwell (0.64 miles)61
Begbroke (1.24 miles)34
Hampton Poyle (1.39 miles)27
Hampton Gay (1.96 miles)17
Shipton-on-Cherwell (1.96 miles)17
Water Eaton (1.39 miles)12
Islip (1.96 miles)5

21.43%
of Kidlington East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Kidlington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Kidlington41
Begbroke32
Cutteslowe31
Gosford23
Cherwell16
Hampton Poyle11
Hampton Gay11
Shipton-on-Cherwell11
Water Eaton2
Islip1

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

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 Kidlington 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 Kidlington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kidlington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kidlington is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Jericho and Osney46
2Wolvercote44
3Marston35
4Summertown27
5Kidlington West23
6Kidlington East20
7St Margaret's17
8North17
9Headington Hill and Northway16
10Woodstock and Bladon6
11Freeland and Hanborough1

Which road in Kidlington has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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