Crime Statistics for New Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Headington in August 2024. There were a total of 357 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 New Headington, 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	103
Shoplifting	72
Public Order	32
Vehicle Crime	29
Bicycle Theft	28
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	16
Drugs	14
Burglary	10
Robbery	8
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	357

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 New Headington. 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 New Headington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Marston (1.96 miles)	872
Temple Cowley (1.39 miles)	437
New Headington	323
Blackird Leys (1.86 miles)	304
Barton (0.62 miles)	260
Sandhills (0.88 miles)	187
Marston (2.24 miles)	112
Horspath (1.76 miles)	24
Forest Hill (1.96 miles)	6
Littleworth (1.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near New Headington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Marston	266
Temple Cowley	118
New Headington	103
Blackird Leys	87
Barton	75
Sandhills	60
Marston	26
Horspath	12
Forest Hill	2
Littleworth	1

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

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 New Headington 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 New Headington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blackbird Leys	76
2	St Mary's	67
3	Cowley	57
4	Barton and Sandhills	56
5	Iffley Fields	54
6	Cowley Marsh	52
7	Lye Valley	34
8	Churchill	34
9	Quarry and Risinghurst	30
10	Headington	24
11	Headington Hill and Northway	16

Which road in New Headington has the highest level of crime?

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