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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hotwells in October 2024. There were a total of 606 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 Hotwells, 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	193
Anti Social Behaviour	81
Public Order	58
Shoplifting	53
Other Theft	46
Vehicle Crime	44
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Burglary	26
Bicycle Theft	23
Robbery	12
Theft From The Person	9
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	6
Drugs	4
All Crime	606

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 Hotwells. 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 Hotwells

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Montpelier (1.75 miles)	2605
Barton Hill (1.86 miles)	889
Bedminster (0.88 miles)	760
Lower Knowle (1.76 miles)	691
Hotwells	606
Bedminster Down (1.86 miles)	347
Ashton Gate (0.62 miles)	299
Bower Ashton (0.88 miles)	189
Ashton Vale (1.39 miles)	108
Abbots Leigh (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Hotwells?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Montpelier	818
Bedminster	287
Lower Knowle	267
Barton Hill	245
Hotwells	193
Bedminster Down	112
Ashton Gate	103
Bower Ashton	59
Ashton Vale	37
Abbots Leigh	0

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

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 Hotwells 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 Hotwells compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hotwells and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hotwells is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ashley	89
2	Filwood	89
3	Central	85
4	Windmill Hill	81
5	Bishopsworth	79
6	Southville	77
7	Bedminster	73
8	Hotwells and Harbourside	72
9	Clifton Down	56
10	Clifton	54
11	Long Ashton	37

Which road in Hotwells has the highest level of crime?

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