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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Knowle in August 2024. There were a total of 601 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Knowle, 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 Crime324
Public Order74
Anti Social Behaviour54
Vehicle Crime51
Criminal Damage Arson32
Other Theft22
Shoplifting16
Other Crime10
Burglary8
Robbery6
Bicycle Theft4
All Crime601

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 Knowle. 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 Knowle

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Filwood Park (0.88 miles)875
Bedminster (1.39 miles)828
Barton Hill (1.24 miles)784
Lower Knowle (0.62 miles)663
Novers Park (1.39 miles)595
Knowle556
Broom Hill (1.39 miles)446
Arno’s Vale (0.62 miles)444
Hengrove (1.24 miles)281
Brislington (1.24 miles)238

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



Where are the most violent places near Knowle?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Filwood Park350
Lower Knowle325
Knowle324
Bedminster310
Barton Hill231
Broom Hill225
Novers Park211
Arno’s Vale189
Hengrove189
Brislington107

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

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 Knowle 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 Knowle compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Knowle and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Knowle is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Hartcliffe and Withywood95
2Filwood89
3Lawrence Hill86
4Knowle83
5Windmill Hill81
6Bishopsworth79
7Hengrove and Whitchurch Park78
8Southville77
9Stockwood75
10Publow & Whitchurch74
11Bedminster73

Which road in Knowle has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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