Crime Statistics for Novers Park, Bristol, City of Bristol, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Novers Park in September 2024. There were a total of 548 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 Novers Park, 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	195
Anti Social Behaviour	87
Shoplifting	73
Vehicle Crime	43
Public Order	36
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Other Theft	31
Burglary	13
Robbery	11
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	7
Drugs	6
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	548

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 Novers Park. 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 Novers Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bedminster (1.24 miles)	828
Filwood Park (0.62 miles)	799
Bishopsworth (0.88 miles)	734
Hengrove Park (0.88 miles)	658
Novers Park	548
Bedminster Down (0.62 miles)	396
Lower Knowle (0.88 miles)	352
Hartcliffe (1.24 miles)	252
Hengrove (1.39 miles)	247
Ashton Vale (1.39 miles)	99

Where are the most violent places near Novers Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Filwood Park	388
Bedminster	310
Bishopsworth	281
Hengrove Park	259
Lower Knowle	240
Hartcliffe	219
Novers Park	195
Bedminster Down	148
Hengrove	121
Ashton Vale	47

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

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 Novers Park 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 Novers Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Novers Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Novers Park have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Winford.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hartcliffe and Withywood	95
2	Filwood	89
3	Knowle	83
4	Windmill Hill	81
5	Bishopsworth	79
6	Hengrove and Whitchurch Park	78
7	Southville	77
8	Stockwood	75
9	Publow & Whitchurch	74
10	Bedminster	73
11	Winford	55

Which road in Novers Park has the highest level of crime?

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