Crime Statistics for Bedminster, Bristol, City of Bristol, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bedminster in September 2024. There were a total of 928 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bedminster, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	310
Public Order	134
Anti Social Behaviour	100
Vehicle Crime	86
Other Theft	80
Shoplifting	64
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Burglary	30
Bicycle Theft	30
Robbery	16
Drugs	12
Other Crime	8
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	928

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 Bedminster. 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 Bedminster

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hotwells (0.88 miles)	971
Bedminster	828
Barton Hill (1.39 miles)	784
Lower Knowle (0.88 miles)	663
Novers Park (1.24 miles)	595
Knowle (1.39 miles)	556
Arno’s Vale (1.24 miles)	444
Ashton Gate (0.62 miles)	251
Bower Ashton (1.24 miles)	187
Ashton Vale (1.39 miles)	99

Where are the most violent places near Bedminster?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hotwells	332
Lower Knowle	325
Knowle	324
Bedminster	310
Barton Hill	231
Novers Park	211
Arno’s Vale	189
Ashton Gate	95
Bower Ashton	86
Ashton Vale	47

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

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 Bedminster 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 Bedminster compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bedminster and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bedminster is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hartcliffe and Withywood	95
2	Filwood	89
3	Lawrence Hill	86
4	Central	85
5	Knowle	83
6	Windmill Hill	81
7	Bishopsworth	79
8	Southville	77
9	Bedminster	73
10	Hotwells and Harbourside	72
11	Winford	55

Which road in Bedminster has the highest level of crime?

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