Total Crime Rate

85.7 per 1,000 7/10 · High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 05.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 85.7 7/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 40.0 8/10
  • Drugs 28.6 10/10
  • Vehicle crime 11.4 8/10
  • Theft from the person 5.7 7/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 0.0 1/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Burglary 0.0 1/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 0.0 1/10
  • Other crime 0.0 1/10
  • Other theft 0.0 1/10
  • Possession of weapons 0.0 1/10
  • Public order 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Shoplifting 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Gaisford Road area has the 26th lowest crime rate of 58 local areas in Cowley , and the 175th highest crime rate of 426 local areas in Oxford .

Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.

The overall crime rate in the area around Gaisford Road (OX4 3LH) in the last 12 months was 85.7 per 1,000 residents and was 39.0% lower than the Cowley average (140.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 7 offences recorded. The least common crime was Theft from the person with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 600.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2024.

Violent crimes totalled 7 (≈ 40.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 600.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 11.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Gaisford Road (OX4 3LH), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Shopping Area, where police recorded 231 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Further/Higher Educational Building (45 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

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Crime Over Time in Gaisford Road area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Banjo Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Parking Area Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Shopping Area Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Beauchamp Lane Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Beauchamp Lane —
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Beauchamp Lane —
Sep 2025Shoplifting Shopping Area Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Parking Area Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Parking Area Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Crowell Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Parking Area Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Parking Area Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Parking Area —
Sep 2025Public order Banjo Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Bartholomew Road Action to be taken by another organisation
Sep 2025Other theft Rahere Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Rahere Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Crowell Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Crowell Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Bodley Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences The Grates Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Hockmore Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Parking Area Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Parking Area Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Knolles Road —
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Parking Area Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Shoplifting Parking Area Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Supermarket —
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Crowell Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Parking Area Under investigation

Data Sources

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