Crime Statistics for Knowle, Bristol, City of Bristol, 2025

Is Knowle rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 386 incidents. 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 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	189
Anti Social Behaviour	52
Public Order	40
Vehicle Crime	23
Other Theft	23
Burglary	15
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Crime	10
Drugs	7
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	386

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barton Hill (1.24 miles)	670
Novers Park (1.39 miles)	464
Arno’s Vale (0.62 miles)	446
Bedminster (1.39 miles)	441
Filwood Park (0.88 miles)	404
Knowle	386
Lower Knowle (0.62 miles)	345
Brislington (1.24 miles)	282
Broom Hill (1.39 miles)	220
Hengrove (1.24 miles)	201

Where are the most violent places near Knowle?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barton Hill	244
Arno’s Vale	203
Lower Knowle	201
Knowle	189
Bedminster	177
Filwood Park	177
Novers Park	176
Brislington	158
Hengrove	100
Broom Hill	93

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in 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 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 Knowle compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Knowle and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Knowle is ranked #4.

#	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	Publow & Whitchurch	74
11	Bedminster	73

Which road in Knowle has the highest level of crime?

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