Crime Statistics for Barton Hill, Bristol, City of Bristol, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barton Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 784 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barton Hill, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime231
Anti Social Behaviour114
Public Order104
Other Theft75
Vehicle Crime51
Shoplifting51
Criminal Damage Arson47
Burglary28
Bicycle Theft27
Robbery20
Drugs15
Theft From The Person9
Possession Of Weapons7
Other Crime5
All Crime784

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Barton Hill. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Barton Hill

We've taken the ten nearest places to Barton Hill and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Barton Hill has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Montpelier (1.39 miles)2063
Bedminster (1.39 miles)828
Barton Hill784
Knowle (1.24 miles)677
Netham (0.62 miles)619
Arno’s Vale (0.62 miles)444
Crew’s Hole (1.39 miles)441
Broom Hill (1.39 miles)410
Lower Knowle (1.39 miles)352
Brislington (1.76 miles)301

38.6%
of Lawrence Hill residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Barton Hill?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Barton Hill and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Montpelier763
Knowle334
Bedminster310
Netham256
Lower Knowle240
Barton Hill231
Broom Hill212
Brislington198
Arno’s Vale189
Crew’s Hole141

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Barton Hill?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Barton Hill to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Barton Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barton Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barton Hill is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Ashley89
2Filwood89
3St George West87
4Easton86
5Lawrence Hill86
6Central85
7Knowle83
8Windmill Hill81
9Southville77
10Hotwells and Harbourside72
11Cotham69

Which road in Barton Hill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Barton Hill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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