Crime Statistics for Little Bourton, Warwick, Oxfordshire, 2025

Is Little Bourton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 12 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Drugs.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	5
Drugs	2
Violent Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Other Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	12

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Banbury (2.48 miles)	249
Hardwick (1.96 miles)	220
Ruscote (1.96 miles)	207
Nethercote (2.24 miles)	197
Hanwell (1.39 miles)	35
Little Bourton	12
Cropredy (1.39 miles)	6
Great Bourton (0.62 miles)	2
Mollington (1.96 miles)	2
Shotteswell (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Little Bourton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Nethercote	116
Hardwick	111
Banbury	104
Ruscote	91
Hanwell	17
Cropredy	4
Little Bourton	2
Mollington	2
Shotteswell	1
Great Bourton	0

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

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 Little Bourton 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 Little Bourton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Bourton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Bourton is ranked #4.

#	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	Bishop's Itchington	27
7	Cropredy, Sibfords and Wroxton	17
8	Adderbury, Bloxham and Bodicote	16
9	Red Horse	14
10	Middleton Cheney	12
11	Kings Sutton	7

Which road in Little Bourton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Little Bourton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around M40.