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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southmead in October 2024. There were a total of 829 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	291
Shoplifting	148
Other Theft	88
Public Order	86
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Burglary	48
Vehicle Crime	32
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	4
Drugs	4
All Crime	829

Map of street level crime incidents in October 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
Southmead	694
Lockleaze (1.75 miles)	556
Horfield (1.39 miles)	469
Filton (1.24 miles)	384
Henleaze (1.24 miles)	320
Cribbs Causeway (1.39 miles)	312
Brentry (0.88 miles)	294
Catbrain (1.39 miles)	221
Henbury (1.24 miles)	220
Blaise Hamlet (1.86 miles)	147

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
Southmead	291
Lockleaze	198
Henleaze	186
Filton	169
Horfield	150
Cribbs Causeway	144
Brentry	126
Henbury	91
Catbrain	86
Blaise Hamlet	70

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 Southmead Road.