Crime Statistics for Bower Ashton, Long Ashton, North Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bower Ashton in September 2024. There were a total of 104 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bower Ashton, 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	28
Public Order	16
Vehicle Crime	12
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Shoplifting	12
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	104

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 Bower Ashton. 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 Bower Ashton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bedminster (1.24 miles)	828
Novers Park (1.76 miles)	548
Hotwells (0.88 miles)	519
Bedminster Down (1.39 miles)	396
Lower Knowle (1.96 miles)	352
Ashton Gate (0.62 miles)	251
Bower Ashton	104
Ashton Vale (0.62 miles)	99
Long Ashton (1.39 miles)	26
Abbots Leigh (1.75 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Bower Ashton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bedminster	310
Lower Knowle	240
Novers Park	195
Hotwells	194
Bedminster Down	148
Ashton Gate	95
Ashton Vale	47
Bower Ashton	28
Long Ashton	9
Abbots Leigh	0

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

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 Bower Ashton 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 Bower Ashton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bower Ashton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bower Ashton is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hartcliffe and Withywood	95
2	Filwood	89
3	Central	85
4	Windmill Hill	81
5	Bishopsworth	79
6	Southville	77
7	Bedminster	73
8	Hotwells and Harbourside	72
9	Winford	55
10	Clifton	54
11	Long Ashton	37

Which road in Bower Ashton has the highest level of crime?

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