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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brislington in August 2024. There were a total of 238 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 Brislington, 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 Crime107
Anti Social Behaviour30
Public Order22
Shoplifting21
Vehicle Crime19
Criminal Damage Arson15
Other Theft9
Burglary8
Robbery4
Other Crime2
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime238

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Knowle (1.24 miles)556
Broom Hill (0.62 miles)446
Arno’s Vale (1.39 miles)444
Brislington238
Conham (1.39 miles)224
Stockwood (1.24 miles)198
Stockwood Vale (1.39 miles)166
Hicks Gate (0.88 miles)108
Stone Hill (1.39 miles)82
Hanham Green (1.24 miles)49

12.88%
of Knowle (Bristol) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Brislington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Knowle324
Broom Hill225
Arno’s Vale189
Stockwood114
Brislington107
Conham96
Stockwood Vale94
Hicks Gate39
Hanham Green38
Stone Hill33

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

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 Brislington 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 Brislington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brislington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brislington is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Filwood89
2Lawrence Hill86
3Knowle83
4Windmill Hill81
5Stockwood75
6Brislington West75
7Publow & Whitchurch74
8Keynsham North67
9Brislington East66
10St George Troopers Hill63
11Longwell Green31

Which road in Brislington has the highest level of crime?

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

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