Crime Statistics for Downend, Bristol, City of Bristol, 2024

Is Downend rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 469 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	149
Violent Crime	130
Anti Social Behaviour	65
Other Theft	39
Public Order	27
Vehicle Crime	15
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	7
Theft From The Person	5
Other Crime	5
Robbery	4
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	469

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Broomhill (1.39 miles)	464
Downend	310
Frenchay	310
Mangotsfield (0.88 miles)	280
Harry Stoke (1.39 miles)	184
Emerson’s Green (1.39 miles)	177
Blackhorse (1.24 miles)	157
Bromley Heath (0.88 miles)	81
Hambrook (0.62 miles)	80
Moorend (0.88 miles)	73

Where are the most violent places near Downend?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Downend	130
Mangotsfield	129
Broomhill	122
Frenchay	91
Emerson’s Green	80
Blackhorse	75
Harry Stoke	62
Hambrook	48
Bromley Heath	37
Moorend	34

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

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 Downend 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 Downend compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Downend and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Downend is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Lockleaze	84
2	Frome Vale	84
3	Eastville	83
4	Hillfields	81
5	St George Central	78
6	Staple Hill & Mangotsfield	66
7	New Cheltenham	62
8	Emersons Green	40
9	Frenchay & Downend	39
10	Winterbourne	31
11	Stoke Park & Cheswick	17

Which road in Downend has the highest level of crime?

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

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