Crime Statistics for Cherwell, South Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cherwell in October 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cherwell, 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	1
All Crime	1

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cherwell. 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 Cherwell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Byfield (2.08 miles)	8
Aston le Walls (3.14 miles)	4
Chapel Green (3.42 miles)	2
Church Charwelton (3.53 miles)	1
Hellidon (2.5 miles)	1
Cherwell	1
Lower Catesby (3 miles)	1
Upper Boddington (1.26 miles)	1
Charwelton (2.91 miles)	1
Marston Doles (2.35 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Cherwell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Byfield	2
Aston le Walls	1
Hellidon	1
Cherwell	1
Lower Catesby	1
Upper Boddington	1
Chapel Green	0
Church Charwelton	0
Charwelton	0
Marston Doles	0

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

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 Cherwell 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 Cherwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cherwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Cherwell have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Abbey South.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey South	62
2	Drayton	45
3	Long Itchington & Stockton	35
4	Southam South	33
5	Southam North	33
6	Bishop's Itchington	27
7	Napton & Fenny Compton	25
8	Woodford	16
9	Red Horse	14
10	Washington	11
11	Danvers and Wardoun	2

Which road in Cherwell has the highest level of crime?

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