Crime Statistics for Lower Knowle, City of Bristol, 2024

There were a total of 446 street level crime incidents in Lower Knowle in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Knowle, 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	181
Anti Social Behaviour	66
Shoplifting	44
Public Order	36
Vehicle Crime	35
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Burglary	13
Drugs	10
Other Crime	10
Other Theft	8
Robbery	8
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	446

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Knowle. 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 Lower Knowle

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bedminster (0.88 miles)	596
Arno’s Vale (0.88 miles)	554
Filwood Park (0.62 miles)	523
Novers Park (0.88 miles)	519
Hengrove Park (1.24 miles)	467
Lower Knowle	446
Knowle (0.62 miles)	438
Ashton Gate (1.39 miles)	332
Bedminster Down (1.39 miles)	331
Hengrove (1.39 miles)	305

Where are the most violent places near Lower Knowle?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Filwood Park	224
Arno’s Vale	223
Novers Park	220
Hengrove Park	197
Bedminster	194
Knowle	185
Lower Knowle	181
Hengrove	149
Bedminster Down	124
Ashton Gate	102

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lower Knowle?

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 Lower Knowle 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 Lower Knowle compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Knowle and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lower Knowle is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hartcliffe and Withywood	95
2	Filwood	89
3	Lawrence Hill	86
4	Knowle	83
5	Windmill Hill	81
6	Bishopsworth	79
7	Hengrove and Whitchurch Park	78
8	Southville	77
9	Stockwood	75
10	Bedminster	73
11	Hotwells and Harbourside	72

Which road in Lower Knowle has the highest level of crime?

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