Crime Statistics for Bicester, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bicester in August 2024. There were a total of 425 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	136
Violent Crime	113
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Other Theft	30
Public Order	28
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Drugs	14
Burglary	10
Bicycle Theft	10
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	425

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 Bicester. 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 Bicester

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bicester	370
Highfield (0.88 miles)	231
Launton (1.24 miles)	54
Chesterton (1.39 miles)	32
Caversfield (1.86 miles)	30
Lower Arncott (2.78 miles)	11
Ambrosden (2.24 miles)	6
Bainton (2.49 miles)	6
Bucknell (2.24 miles)	3
Little Chesterton (2.24 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Bicester?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bicester	113
Highfield	72
Launton	20
Chesterton	16
Caversfield	14
Lower Arncott	5
Ambrosden	5
Bainton	4
Bucknell	0
Little Chesterton	0

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

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 Bicester 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 Bicester compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bicester and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bicester is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bicester West	52
2	Bicester East	50
3	Bicester South and Ambrosden	44
4	Bicester North and Caversfield	30
5	Fringford and Heyfords	27
6	Launton and Otmoor	26
7	Kidlington West	23
8	Grendon Underwood & Brill	12
9	Quainton	6
10	Marsh Gibbon	5
11	Little Brook	4

Which road in Bicester has the highest level of crime?

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