Crime Statistics for Sandhills, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandhills in August 2024. There were a total of 187 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 Sandhills, 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	60
Shoplifting	31
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	10
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Public Order	8
Burglary	7
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	187

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 Sandhills. 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 Sandhills

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Marston (2.48 miles)	872
Temple Cowley (2.24 miles)	437
New Headington (0.88 miles)	323
Barton (0.62 miles)	260
Sandhills	187
Horspath (1.96 miles)	24
Holton (2.56 miles)	12
Forest Hill (1.24 miles)	6
Littleworth (1.76 miles)	3
Beckley (1.86 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Sandhills?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Sandhills 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
Barton	75
Sandhills	60
Horspath	12
Holton	4
Forest Hill	2
Littleworth	1
Beckley	0

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

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 Sandhills 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 Sandhills compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandhills and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sandhills is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Blackbird Leys	76
2	Cowley	57
3	Barton and Sandhills	56
4	Cowley Marsh	52
5	Marston	35
6	Lye Valley	34
7	Churchill	34
8	Garsington & Horspath	32
9	Quarry and Risinghurst	30
10	Headington	24
11	Headington Hill and Northway	16

Which road in Sandhills has the highest level of crime?

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