Radley is a safe place to live, and crime here runs well below the rest of its district. Recorded crime is about a third lower than the local average. Over a whole year the police logged a little over a hundred crimes. Almost nobody is out of work and almost nobody is crammed in. The bigger risk is being disappointed by what happens after you report something.
Thames Valley Police published a rate of about 41 crimes per 1,000 residents for Radley in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, roughly 29% below the Vale of White Horse average. That rate comes from 121 recorded crimes over the twelve months. It's based on the statistical-area population the police use, which isn't quite the same as a headcount of the village.
Across the Vale of White Horse district as a whole, the rate over the same year was about 58 per 1,000 residents, against Radley's 41. You don't have to take "below average" on trust, because both numbers are there. If the district's figure worries you, the cause is somewhere other than Radley.
Radley has about 1,380 residents per square kilometre on average, unemployment of about 1% and overcrowding of about 1%, according to the 2021 Census. Those numbers just describe the place, a lot of detached houses, bungalows and driveways, and they don't explain anything about crime. A village of owner-occupiers with space and jobs doesn't generate much for the police to write up.
On the breakdown, violence and sexual offences made up 45% of Radley's recorded crime in the year, against about 35% nationally. That category is the biggest almost everywhere, and it covers a wide legal range that includes common assault with no injury. Anti-social behaviour was 16%, the same as the national share. Other theft was 12% against 7%, public order 8% against 7%, criminal damage and arson 6% against 7%, and burglary 6% against 4%. With only 121 crimes in total, a few incidents move any of those shares by several points, so this year's mix doesn't tell you much about what Radley is like. If you want a picture of your own road, police.uk maps reported crime street by street, and a few months of history there will show more than any share does.
After a report, Thames Valley Police, which covers Radley along with the rest of the force area, charged a suspect in about 9% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 37th out of 42 forces. About 37% of the force's cases were closed with no suspect identified. That's the force's figure across its whole patch, and it measures a different thing from how much crime Radley has. If the bike does get stolen from the shed, the odds of anyone being charged are worse than they would be in most of England.
Safety is one of Radley's real strengths. There's little crime to report, and what there is runs well below the district around it.