Lye Valley
WardSouth east Oxford. About 7,485 people in 1.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 94% of people in Lye Valley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lye Valley compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lye Valley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lye Valley at a rate of 78.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 107.1 per 1,000 people across Oxford.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 62 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lye Valley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (208), shoplifting (132) and other crime (131).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Oxford
These figures are published for the whole of Oxford, not for each ward, so they describe all of Oxford and not Lye Valley alone. See Oxford
Lye Valley in brief
Lye Valley had 7,119 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Lye Valley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lye Valley, 81.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Lye Valley, 2.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.