Eynsham is a safe place to live, a bit safer than the district around it. Crime here runs a little below the West Oxfordshire rate. Unemployment is low and overcrowding is rare. The police record a few hundred crimes a year, and the numbers are small enough that one bad weekend shows up in them.
Thames Valley Police recorded 298 crimes in Eynsham in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate is about 46 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 13% below the West Oxfordshire average. Both figures cover the four small statistical areas that make up the village, so Eynsham is measured as a whole and the published rate stands on its own.
West Oxfordshire as a whole runs at about 53 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year, against Eynsham's 46. That puts the village below a district that is not high to begin with. Buyers who already think of West Oxfordshire as quiet are, on this measure, moving to the quieter end of it.
The village is fairly dense for somewhere that calls itself a village, at roughly 3,650 people per square kilometre across its built-up area. Unemployment was about 2% at the 2021 Census, and about 2% of households were overcrowded. Those numbers describe a settled, working, mostly well-housed village. They describe the place and do not explain its crime figures, which have causes these numbers do not capture.
The crime mix needs reading with care, because a total of 298 is small enough that a few incidents move any share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 46% of Eynsham's recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere, and it covers a wide legal range, down to common assault where nobody was injured. Other theft accounted for about 10% (7% nationally), public order offences for 10% (7% nationally), criminal damage and arson for 8% (7% nationally) and drugs for 4%, level with the national share. Anti-social behaviour was the one category clearly below the national share, at about 10% against 16%. With a base this small, next year's mix could look different, and none of these shares should be read as a fixed trait of the village.
Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 37th of 42 forces in England and Wales over the same twelve months. In about 37% of cases the force closes the file without identifying a suspect. These are force-wide figures covering a large area, and they say how often the police get a result after a crime, which is a different question from how often crime happens in Eynsham. The village keeps its crime low. The force behind it is less good at solving the crime that does happen.
Eynsham is a safe village with a crime rate below the district around it. The biggest weakness in the safety picture is the force's charge rate, which says nothing about how safe the streets themselves are.