Photo: Andrew Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Berinsfield records shoplifting at 2.7 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence fell 24% in a year. Its letter overall is C+ (#30 of 38 in Oxfordshire): more crime per resident than 65% of UK towns, from crimes police recorded inside its built-up area through September 2023 to August 2026. It has less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 63% of UK towns, but less violent crime than only 28%. Police counts work out at 32.1 violent and sexual offences and 7.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Berinsfield
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 24% less violent crime per resident in Berinsfield than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Berinsfield has the 643rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Holsworthy, Pontycymer and Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, higher than Church Warsop, Chipping Ongar and Bessbrook. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Berinsfield’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 333 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Berinsfield against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Berinsfield identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 27% of Berinsfield’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (54% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 15% of violent and 10% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 133 crimes.
How crime in Berinsfield has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -24% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +21% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Berinsfield runs highest on shoplifting (5 per 1,000 against 1.8) and anti-social behaviour (12.3 per 1,000 against 8.8).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 71 | 25.6 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 34 | 12.3 | 8.8 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 14 | 5 | 1.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 13 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 11 | 4 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 10 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 5 | 1.8 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 5 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 3 | 1.1 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 2 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Berinsfield’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Berinsfield’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
643rd of 856: Berinsfield among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 56 | Goring Oxfordshire | 3,434 | 8.6 | 6.4 | 4 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 64 | Adderbury and Twyford Oxfordshire | 3,318 | 12.5 | 3.1 | 3.3 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 125 | Long Hanborough Oxfordshire | 3,034 | 14.1 | 4.4 | 5.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 129 | Radley Oxfordshire | 2,079 | 14 | 4.7 | 5.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 640 | Church Warsop Nottinghamshire | 2,139 | 29.9 | 9.8 | 4.4 | C+ |
| 641 | Chipping Ongar Essex | 3,922 | 26.9 | 12.9 | 16.7 | C+ |
| 642 | Bessbrook Newry, Mourne and Down | 2,892 | 23.3 | 16.7 | 2.8 | C+ |
| 643 | Berinsfield Oxfordshire | 2,773 | 32.1 | 7.9 | 6.9 | C+ |
| 644 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | 3,988 | 31.9 | 8.2 | 4.4 | C+ |
| 645 | Glyn-neath West Glamorgan | 3,927 | 31.3 | 8.8 | 6.5 | C+ |
| 646 | Highley Shropshire | 3,305 | 29.1 | 11.1 | 2.6 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Berinsfield, and others in Oxfordshire.
Crime in Berinsfield per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 6 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
No one died in a collision on Berinsfield’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 3 collisions with injuries inside Berinsfield in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Berinsfield is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Berinsfield’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Berinsfield had 0.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Berinsfield’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Berinsfield
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berinsfield | 2,773 | 32.1 | 7.9 | C+ |
| Radley | 2,079 | 14 | 4.7 | A |
| Brightwell-cum-Sotwell | 1,244 | 17.4 | 3.2 | A− |
| Garsington | 1,295 | 13.9 | 8.5 | A− |
| Chalgrove | 2,807 | 21.1 | 3.6 | B+ |
| Benson | 5,236 | 15.3 | 5.3 | A− |
| Kennington | 4,595 | 12.7 | 6 | A |
| Abingdon-on-Thames | 33,179 | 30 | 9.1 | C+ |
Berinsfield records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Radley, 3.4 miles away, records 14 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Berinsfield’s 32.1.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Berinsfield sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Berinsfield
Is Berinsfield safe?
Police recorded 32.1 violent and sexual offences and 7.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Berinsfield’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 35% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Berinsfield is 643rd from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Berinsfield?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 24%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 127% and anti-social behaviour rose 21%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Berinsfield?
Violence & sexual offences: 71 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (14) and criminal damage & arson (13), with 34 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Berinsfield compare with Oxford?
Oxford records 37 violent and sexual offences and 15.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Berinsfield’s 32.1 and 7.9, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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