Crime Statistics for Banbury, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

Is Banbury rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 320 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Banbury, 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 Crime149
Public Order35
Anti Social Behaviour34
Shoplifting25
Criminal Damage Arson18
Vehicle Crime14
Burglary9
Other Theft8
Drugs8
Other Crime5
Theft From The Person5
Possession Of Weapons4
Bicycle Theft3
Robbery3
All Crime320

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ruscote (0.88 miles)498
Banbury295
Neithrop (0.62 miles)236
Hardwick (0.88 miles)201
Grimsbury (0.62 miles)182
Nethercote (1.39 miles)177
Easington (0.62 miles)108
Calthorpe (0.88 miles)106
Drayton (1.96 miles)27
Warkworth (1.86 miles)20

28.44%
of Banbury Cross and Neithrop residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Banbury?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ruscote229
Hardwick187
Grimsbury169
Banbury149
Neithrop117
Easington60
Nethercote55
Calthorpe54
Drayton12
Warkworth8

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

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 Banbury 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 Banbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Banbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Banbury is ranked #2.

#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
8The Bartons15
9Middleton Cheney12
10Deddington10
11Kings Sutton7

Which road in Banbury has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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