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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bishopston in October 2024. There were a total of 494 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bishopston, 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	137
Vehicle Crime	80
Anti Social Behaviour	67
Other Theft	36
Criminal Damage Arson	35
Shoplifting	33
Public Order	32
Burglary	27
Other Crime	14
Bicycle Theft	12
Theft From The Person	8
Robbery	6
Drugs	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	494

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bishopston. 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 Bishopston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Montpelier (0.88 miles)	2605
Bristol (1.24 miles)	985
Ashley Down (0.62 miles)	897
Southmead (1.86 miles)	694
Lockleaze (1.39 miles)	556
Bishopston	494
Redland	494
Horfield (0.88 miles)	469
Henleaze (0.62 miles)	320
Stoke Bishop (1.24 miles)	83

Where are the most violent places near Bishopston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Montpelier	818
Bristol	299
Ashley Down	292
Southmead	291
Lockleaze	198
Henleaze	186
Horfield	150
Bishopston	137
Redland	137
Stoke Bishop	28

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

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 Bishopston 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 Bishopston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ashley	89
2	Central	85
3	Horfield	81
4	Bishopston and Ashley Down	73
5	Redland	72
6	Hotwells and Harbourside	72
7	Cotham	69
8	Stoke Bishop	58
9	Clifton Down	56
10	Clifton	54
11	Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze	53

Which road in Bishopston has the highest level of crime?

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