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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bishopsworth in September 2024. There were a total of 863 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bishopsworth, 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	281
Shoplifting	140
Anti Social Behaviour	138
Public Order	68
Criminal Damage Arson	62
Vehicle Crime	44
Other Theft	44
Burglary	24
Other Crime	22
Drugs	14
Robbery	14
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	863

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 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
Filwood Park (1.39 miles)	875
Bishopsworth	734
Lower Knowle (1.75 miles)	663
Novers Park (0.88 miles)	595
Hengrove Park (1.24 miles)	437
Bedminster Down (0.62 miles)	396
Hartcliffe (0.88 miles)	355
Ashton Vale (1.39 miles)	99
Maiden Head (1.39 miles)	14
Dundry (1.76 miles)	1

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
Filwood Park	350
Lower Knowle	325
Bishopsworth	281
Novers Park	211
Hengrove Park	153
Bedminster Down	148
Hartcliffe	139
Ashton Vale	47
Maiden Head	10
Dundry	0

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.