Crime Statistics for Water Eaton, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Water Eaton in August 2024. 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 Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Violent Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	12

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 Water Eaton. 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 Water Eaton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Marston (2.56 miles)	112
Cutteslowe (1.39 miles)	98
Kidlington (1.39 miles)	92
Gosford (1.39 miles)	66
Cherwell (1.15 miles)	52
Begbroke (2.56 miles)	34
Hampton Poyle (1.96 miles)	27
Water Eaton	12
Islip (1.39 miles)	5
Oddington (2.77 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Water Eaton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kidlington	41
Begbroke	32
Cutteslowe	31
Marston	26
Gosford	23
Cherwell	17
Hampton Poyle	11
Water Eaton	2
Islip	1
Oddington	0

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

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 Water Eaton 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 Water Eaton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Barton and Sandhills	56
2	Jericho and Osney	46
3	Wolvercote	44
4	Marston	35
5	Summertown	27
6	Kidlington West	23
7	Kidlington East	20
8	St Margaret's	17
9	North	17
10	Headington Hill and Northway	16

Which road in Water Eaton has the highest level of crime?

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