Crap Towns / Patchway / Crime

How much crime is there in Patchway?

The police recorded 172 crimes per 1,000 people a year in Patchway from September 2023 to August 2026, 2.3 times the typical town's 76.2. The most common was violence and sexual offences, at 59.2. In the 12 months to August 2026 it was 205, up from 158 in the 12 months to August 2024.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical town
September 2023 to August 2024	158	78.6
September 2024 to August 2025	154	77.4
September 2025 to August 2026	205	73.7

**By type**
Crime	Here	Typical town
Violence and sexual offences	59.2	34.1
Shoplifting	50.2	7.1
Public order	15.0	6.6
Other theft	13.0	5.4
Criminal damage and arson	11.9	7.0
Vehicle crime	7.1	3.8
Burglary	4.9	3.1
Drugs	4.5	2.4
Other crime	3.3	2.0
Robbery	1.4	0.6
Possession of weapons	0.9	0.8
Bicycle theft	0.5	0.5
Theft from the person	0.5	0.4

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Crimes per 1,000 people a year
Patchway	–	172
Bristol	8.9 km	127
Filton	2.0 km	99.7
Stoke Gifford	3.6 km	76.0
Kingswood and Fishponds	8.2 km	75.3
Yate	10.8 km	74.5
Thornbury	9.6 km	54.3
Chipping Sodbury	13.0 km	47.4
Bradley Stoke	2.1 km	46.2
Long Ashton	12.7 km	45.4
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne	6.6 km	43.1
The typical town	–	76.2