Sonning Common
WardThe south east of the South Oxfordshire. About 8,240 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 33 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 96% of people in Sonning Common live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sonning Common compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sonning Common safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sonning Common at a rate of 30.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 47.1 per 1,000 people across South Oxfordshire.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 27 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sonning Common.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (113), other crime (57) and anti-social behaviour (29).
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 South Oxfordshire
These figures are published for the whole of South Oxfordshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of South Oxfordshire and not Sonning Common alone. See South Oxfordshire
Sonning Common in brief
Sonning Common had 7,815 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Sonning Common live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sonning Common, 82.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Sonning Common, 1.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.