Crime Statistics for New Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Headington in September 2024. There were a total of 264 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime87
Shoplifting32
Criminal Damage Arson26
Anti Social Behaviour21
Bicycle Theft20
Vehicle Crime16
Public Order15
Other Theft15
Burglary10
Drugs10
Other Crime5
Robbery3
Possession Of Weapons2
Theft From The Person2
All Crime264

Map of street level crime incidents in September 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
New Marston (1.96 miles)514
Temple Cowley (1.39 miles)433
Blackird Leys (1.86 miles)304
New Headington264
Barton (0.62 miles)260
Sandhills (0.88 miles)176
Marston (2.24 miles)123
Horspath (1.76 miles)29
Littleworth (1.96 miles)7
Forest Hill (1.96 miles)1

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Temple Cowley132
New Marston115
Blackird Leys87
New Headington87
Barton75
Sandhills51
Marston41
Horspath15
Littleworth4
Forest Hill1

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.

#WardScore
1Blackbird Leys76
2St Mary's67
3Cowley57
4Barton and Sandhills56
5Iffley Fields54
6Cowley Marsh52
7Lye Valley34
8Churchill34
9Quarry and Risinghurst30
10Headington24
11Headington Hill and Northway16

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.

Last updated: September 2024
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