Crap Towns / Bristol / Crime

How much crime is there in Bristol?

The police recorded 127 crimes per 1,000 people a year in Bristol from September 2023 to August 2026, 1.7 times the typical town's 76.2. The most common was violence and sexual offences, at 51.4. In the 12 months to August 2026 it was 134, up from 126 in the 12 months to August 2024.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical town
September 2023 to August 2024	126	78.6
September 2024 to August 2025	121	77.4
September 2025 to August 2026	134	73.7

**By type**
Crime	Here	Typical town
Violence and sexual offences	51.4	34.1
Public order	14.2	6.6
Shoplifting	12.8	7.1
Other theft	10.7	5.4
Criminal damage and arson	10.4	7.0
Vehicle crime	9.7	3.8
Burglary	5.7	3.1
Robbery	2.8	0.6
Drugs	2.7	2.4
Bicycle theft	2.4	0.5
Other crime	2.2	2.0
Possession of weapons	0.9	0.8
Theft from the person	0.9	0.4

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Crimes per 1,000 people a year
Patchway	8.9 km	172
Bristol	–	127
Filton	7.0 km	99.7
Stoke Gifford	6.9 km	76.0
Kingswood and Fishponds	6.7 km	75.3
Keynsham	7.9 km	74.8
Portishead	13.0 km	55.4
Bradley Stoke	9.2 km	46.2
Long Ashton	5.6 km	45.4
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne	11.2 km	43.1
Nailsea	12.3 km	41.5
The typical town	–	76.2