Crime Statistics for Montpelier, Bristol, City of Bristol, 2025

Is Montpelier rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1368 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 Montpelier, 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	428
Anti Social Behaviour	236
Public Order	162
Other Theft	123
Shoplifting	97
Criminal Damage Arson	87
Vehicle Crime	63
Burglary	47
Drugs	38
Bicycle Theft	26
Robbery	22
Other Crime	15
Theft From The Person	13
Possession Of Weapons	11
All Crime	1368

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 Montpelier. 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 Montpelier

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Montpelier	1368
Bristol (0.88 miles)	817
Ashley Down (0.62 miles)	781
Horfield (1.24 miles)	683
Barton Hill (1.39 miles)	670
Redland (0.88 miles)	610
Netham (1.75 miles)	537
Lockleaze (1.39 miles)	465
Henleaze (1.39 miles)	402
Bishopston (0.88 miles)	389

Where are the most violent places near Montpelier?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Montpelier 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
Barton Hill	244
Netham	226
Redland	210
Bishopston	198
Lockleaze	181
Henleaze	168

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

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 Montpelier 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 Montpelier compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Montpelier and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Montpelier is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ashley	89
2	Easton	86
3	Lawrence Hill	86
4	Central	85
5	Windmill Hill	81
6	Southville	77
7	Redland	72
8	Hotwells and Harbourside	72
9	Cotham	69
10	Clifton Down	56
11	Clifton	54

Which road in Montpelier has the highest level of crime?

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