Crime Statistics for Lawrence Weston, Bristol, City of Bristol, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lawrence Weston in September 2024. There were a total of 240 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 Lawrence Weston, 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	102
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Public Order	30
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Vehicle Crime	17
Other Theft	14
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	3
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	240

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 Lawrence Weston. 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 Lawrence Weston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Henbury (1.24 miles)	357
Brentry (1.96 miles)	310
Coombe Dingle (0.88 miles)	266
Lawrence Weston	240
Blaise Hamlet (0.62 miles)	205
Shirehampton (0.88 miles)	193
Avonmouth (1.39 miles)	158
Lodway (1.75 miles)	156
Berwick (1.39 miles)	112
Hallen (1.39 miles)	112

Where are the most violent places near Lawrence Weston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Henbury	171
Brentry	125
Coombe Dingle	114
Lawrence Weston	102
Shirehampton	92
Lodway	92
Blaise Hamlet	88
Avonmouth	67
Berwick	38
Hallen	38

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

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 Lawrence Weston 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 Lawrence Weston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Henbury and Brentry	84
2	Southmead	83
3	Horfield	81
4	Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston	80
5	Bishopston and Ashley Down	73
6	Charlton & Cribbs	73
7	Stoke Bishop	58
8	Pill	56
9	Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze	53
10	Pilning & Severn Beach	48
11	Gordano Valley	18

Which road in Lawrence Weston has the highest level of crime?

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