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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southmead in September 2024. There were a total of 615 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Southmead, 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	227
Shoplifting	108
Public Order	64
Vehicle Crime	54
Other Theft	54
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Burglary	28
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Crime	8
Drugs	4
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	615

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 Southmead. 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 Southmead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Horfield (1.39 miles)	733
Filton (1.24 miles)	694
Lockleaze (1.75 miles)	633
Southmead	585
Henleaze (1.24 miles)	368
Henbury (1.24 miles)	357
Brentry (0.88 miles)	310
Catbrain (1.39 miles)	245
Cribbs Causeway (1.39 miles)	245
Blaise Hamlet (1.86 miles)	205

Where are the most violent places near Southmead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lockleaze	294
Horfield	239
Filton	238
Southmead	227
Henbury	171
Brentry	125
Cribbs Causeway	112
Henleaze	92
Blaise Hamlet	88
Catbrain	87

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

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 Southmead 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 Southmead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Southmead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Southmead is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Lockleaze	84
2	Henbury and Brentry	84
3	Southmead	83
4	Horfield	81
5	Bishopston and Ashley Down	73
6	Charlton & Cribbs	73
7	Redland	72
8	Filton	66
9	Stoke Bishop	58
10	Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze	53
11	Stoke Park & Cheswick	17

Which road in Southmead has the highest level of crime?

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