Crime Statistics for Temple Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Temple Cowley in September 2024. There were a total of 433 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 Temple Cowley, 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 Crime132
Shoplifting78
Bicycle Theft34
Anti Social Behaviour31
Public Order28
Vehicle Crime25
Other Theft23
Criminal Damage Arson22
Drugs20
Burglary15
Other Crime11
Robbery6
Possession Of Weapons6
Theft From The Person2
All Crime433

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 Temple Cowley. 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 Temple Cowley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Grandpont (1.96 miles)590
Temple Cowley433
Blackird Leys (0.88 miles)304
New Headington (1.39 miles)264
Iffley (1.39 miles)185
Littlemore (1.39 miles)129
Kennington (1.75 miles)78
Sandford-on-Thames (1.96 miles)43
New Hinksey (1.86 miles)39
Horspath (1.86 miles)29

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Where are the most violent places near Temple Cowley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Grandpont156
Temple Cowley132
Blackird Leys87
New Headington87
Iffley81
Littlemore48
Kennington29
Horspath15
New Hinksey13
Sandford-on-Thames11

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

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 Temple Cowley 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 Temple Cowley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Temple Cowley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Temple Cowley is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Blackbird Leys76
2Littlemore74
3Northfield Brook68
4St Mary's67
5Rose Hill and Iffley63
6Cowley57
7Iffley Fields54
8Cowley Marsh52
9Lye Valley34
10Churchill34
11Kennington & Radley11

Which road in Temple Cowley has the highest level of crime?

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

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