Crime Statistics for Hardwick, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Hardwick, Cherwell

There were a total of 248 street level crime incidents in Hardwick in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hardwick, 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 Crime112
Anti Social Behaviour36
Criminal Damage Arson19
Public Order14
Shoplifting14
Burglary13
Vehicle Crime11
Drugs9
Other Theft8
Other Crime6
Theft From The Person3
Possession Of Weapons3
All Crime248

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hardwick. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Hardwick

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Banbury (0.88 miles)261
Ruscote248
Hardwick248
Grimsbury (1.39 miles)227
Neithrop (0.62 miles)192
Easington (1.39 miles)109
Calthorpe (1.75 miles)102
Hanwell (1.39 miles)37
Drayton (1.24 miles)27
North Newington (1.76 miles)0

20.19%
of Banbury Ruscote residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hardwick?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ruscote112
Hardwick112
Banbury102
Grimsbury88
Neithrop84
Easington44
Calthorpe39
Hanwell14
Drayton11
North Newington0

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

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 Hardwick 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 Hardwick compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Banbury Ruscote70
2Banbury Cross and Neithrop56
3Banbury Grimsbury and Hightown49
4Banbury Hardwick41
5Banbury Calthorpe and Easington28
6Cropredy, Sibfords and Wroxton17
7Adderbury, Bloxham and Bodicote16
8Red Horse14
9Middleton Cheney12
10Deddington10
11Kings Sutton7

Which road in Hardwick has the highest level of crime?

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

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