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Vale of White Horse crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 7,938 street-crime records for the Vale of White Horse council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.3% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 57.1 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 78.4 for Thames Valley Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Vale of White Horse council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Vale of White Horse: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
7,938
Latest month (August 2026)
712
Year-on-year
-0.3%
Month-by-month totals
8050
660
Sep
693
Oct
657
Nov
614
Dec
636
Jan
558
Feb
627
Mar
624
Apr
660
May
692
Jun
805
Jul
712
Aug
Striped bars: only some of the forces here published that month, so its count is incomplete. The table names the force.
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
660
October 2025
693
November 2025
657
December 2025
614
January 2026
636
February 2026
558 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
627 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
624 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
660 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
692 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
805 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
712 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Vale of White Horse council area
57.1
Thames Valley Police
78.4
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
7,938 records and 139,027 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the Vale of White Horse council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences40.9%
3,249 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour12.7%
1,008 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order8.7%
689 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson8.0%
635 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft7.4%
591 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting5.8%
459 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary4.6%
364 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Drugs3.3%
265 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Where records cluster in the Vale of White Horse council area
Records by part of the Vale of White Horse council area: the east 3,236, the south-east 1,443, the south 1,422, the north-east 1,066, the west 873, the south-west 440, the north-west 21, the north 19.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Vale of White Horse council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Vale of White Horse council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Vale of White Horse council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the Vale of White Horse council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Vale of White Horse council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000180), which can differ from the place people call Vale of White Horse.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Vale of White Horse. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.