Ward safety · Bristol · data through August 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: 58/100.

All 34 Bristol wards, safest first

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. data.police.uk does not publish incident times, so time-of-day patterns are not shown. 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.