Crime Statistics for Bristol, City of Bristol, 2025

Is Bristol rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 817 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 Bristol, 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	308
Anti Social Behaviour	98
Public Order	89
Other Theft	66
Criminal Damage Arson	56
Vehicle Crime	45
Shoplifting	42
Burglary	34
Drugs	27
Robbery	16
Other Crime	14
Bicycle Theft	10
Possession Of Weapons	10
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	817

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Montpelier (0.88 miles)	1368
Bristol	817
Ashley Down (0.62 miles)	781
Horfield (0.88 miles)	683
Redland (1.24 miles)	610
Crew’s Hole (1.75 miles)	565
Lockleaze (0.62 miles)	465
Henleaze (1.39 miles)	402
Bishopston (1.24 miles)	389
Broomhill (1.39 miles)	373

Where are the most violent places near Bristol?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Montpelier	428
Bristol	308
Ashley Down	250
Horfield	247
Crew’s Hole	226
Redland	210
Bishopston	198
Lockleaze	181
Henleaze	168
Broomhill	132

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

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 Bristol 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 Bristol compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bristol and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bristol is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ashley	89
2	St George West	87
3	Easton	86
4	Lawrence Hill	86
5	Central	85
6	Horfield	81
7	Bishopston and Ashley Down	73
8	Redland	72
9	Hotwells and Harbourside	72
10	Cotham	69
11	Clifton Down	56

Which road in Bristol has the highest level of crime?

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