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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bishopsworth in October 2024. There were a total of 931 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	284
Violent Crime	248
Anti Social Behaviour	142
Public Order	72
Criminal Damage Arson	50
Vehicle Crime	50
Other Theft	38
Burglary	16
Other Crime	15
Robbery	10
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	931

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 Bishopsworth. 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 Bishopsworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bishopsworth	940
Hengrove Park (1.24 miles)	824
Lower Knowle (1.75 miles)	691
Novers Park (0.88 miles)	673
Hartcliffe (0.88 miles)	645
Filwood Park (1.39 miles)	508
Bedminster Down (0.62 miles)	347
Ashton Vale (1.39 miles)	108
Maiden Head (1.39 miles)	16
Dundry (1.76 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Bishopsworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hengrove Park	288
Lower Knowle	267
Hartcliffe	261
Bishopsworth	248
Novers Park	191
Filwood Park	175
Bedminster Down	112
Ashton Vale	37
Maiden Head	7
Dundry	4

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

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 Bishopsworth 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 Bishopsworth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bishopsworth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Bishopsworth have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Chew Valley.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hartcliffe and Withywood	95
2	Filwood	89
3	Windmill Hill	81
4	Bishopsworth	79
5	Hengrove and Whitchurch Park	78
6	Southville	77
7	Stockwood	75
8	Publow & Whitchurch	74
9	Bedminster	73
10	Winford	55
11	Chew Valley	30

Which road in Bishopsworth has the highest level of crime?

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