Ward safety · Bristol · data through July 2026

How safe is your Bristol ward?

SafeRoute scores every Bristol ward 0–100 from street-level incidents reported to Avon and Somerset Police — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each ward's centre, normalised against Bristol. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

These figures describe reported crime around each ward's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Bristol median index: 55/100.

All 34 Bristol wards, safest first

Ward (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Stoke Bishop	90/100	Low risk	28
Bishopsworth	73/100	Moderate	74
Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze	73/100	Moderate	97
Brislington East	72/100	Moderate	79
St George Troopers Hill	70/100	Moderate	101
Stockwood	70/100	Moderate	89
Bedminster	68/100	Moderate	119
Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston	66/100	Moderate	94
Redland	66/100	Moderate	122
Henbury and Brentry	63/100	Moderate	141
Bishopston and Ashley Down	61/100	Moderate	151
Clifton	59/100	Moderate	174
Hengrove and Whitchurch Park	59/100	Moderate	148
Clifton Down	58/100	Moderate	188
Frome Vale	58/100	Moderate	154
Southmead	56/100	Moderate	173
Lockleaze	55/100	Moderate	173
St George West	55/100	Moderate	183
Eastville	54/100	Moderate	185
St George Central	52/100	Moderate	241
Knowle	51/100	Moderate	195
Windmill Hill	51/100	Moderate	201
Filwood	49/100	Elevated	217
Hartcliffe and Withywood	49/100	Elevated	239
Brislington West	48/100	Elevated	244
Horfield	47/100	Elevated	220
Hillfields	46/100	Elevated	279
Southville	39/100	Elevated	359
Easton	37/100	Elevated	365
Cotham	34/100	Elevated	454
Lawrence Hill	34/100	Elevated	390
Ashley	30/100	Elevated	471
Hotwells and Harbourside	22/100	High risk	814
Central	16/100	High risk	1,220

Methodology

Each street-level incident published by Avon and Somerset Police is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre, and normalise against Bristol's own rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the Bristol council wards from the ONS ward set. The scale is calibrated to Bristol and cannot be read against another city's number — a Bristol 55 and a London 55 both mean “typical for this city”, not the same amount of crime. data.police.uk publishes one calendar month at a time, so these pages describe a single month rather than a year. A typical Bristol ward carries fewer incidents than a typical inner-London one, so figures here move more from month to month and small differences between neighbouring wards are not meaningful. Bristol runs down to the Severn and one ward centre sat in the container port rather than the housing the ward is half named for; it has been moved to the built-up part of the same ward, because a circle drawn over a dock reads as safe when it is really empty. Time-of-day charts use the category mix, as data.police.uk does not publish incident times. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares areas within Bristol. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Bristol's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.