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

Is Hotwells rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 797 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hotwells, 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	309
Public Order	100
Other Theft	92
Anti Social Behaviour	88
Criminal Damage Arson	50
Vehicle Crime	50
Burglary	30
Shoplifting	22
Bicycle Theft	18
Other Crime	10
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	10
Drugs	8
All Crime	797

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Montpelier (1.75 miles)	1333
Barton Hill (1.86 miles)	1060
Hotwells	760
Bedminster Down (1.86 miles)	533
Bedminster (0.88 miles)	421
Lower Knowle (1.76 miles)	380
Ashton Gate (0.62 miles)	247
Bower Ashton (0.88 miles)	100
Ashton Vale (1.39 miles)	88
Abbots Leigh (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Hotwells?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Montpelier	482
Barton Hill	389
Hotwells	309
Bedminster Down	192
Lower Knowle	178
Bedminster	147
Ashton Gate	77
Bower Ashton	43
Ashton Vale	36
Abbots Leigh	0

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

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 Hotwells 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 Hotwells compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hotwells and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hotwells is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ashley	89
2	Filwood	89
3	Central	85
4	Windmill Hill	81
5	Bishopsworth	79
6	Southville	77
7	Bedminster	73
8	Hotwells and Harbourside	72
9	Clifton Down	56
10	Clifton	54
11	Long Ashton	37

Which road in Hotwells has the highest level of crime?

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

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