Crime in Oxford
Thinking about Oxford? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Oxford, Oxfordshire, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try reading, swindon, milton-keynes too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Oxford centre
468crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 110
- Shoplifting 82
- Public order 56
- Other theft 42
- 10 other categories 178
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences110
- Shoplifting82
- Public order56
- Other theft42
- Anti-social behaviour39
- Theft from the person39
- Bicycle theft33
- Burglary15
- Criminal damage & arson15
- Vehicle crime14
- Robbery8
- Drugs7
- Other crime6
- Possession of weapons2
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Oxford. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Oxford a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Oxford for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Oxford crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Oxford?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Oxford. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.