Recorded crime
Bristol recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district centre, across 10 Bristol districts. Counts, not rates.
Crimes recorded, July 2026
7,987
Across 10 districts, within about 1 mile of each centre.
- Districts
- 10
- Most recorded
- Violence
data.police.uk, July 2026
Summary
Recorded crime in Bristol: police recorded 7,987 crimes in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of the centre of each of the 10 postcode districts with a published figure. BS9 has the lowest recorded count (147) and BS2 the highest (1,917). The most often recorded category was violent crime, at 30% of the month's recorded crimes. These are counts, not rates: a district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one on footfall alone.
Data from data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026.
Read this first
These are counts, not rates. data.police.uk street-level crime API publishes how many crimes were recorded near a point; it publishes no population figure to divide by. A district with a station, shops and bars will record more crime than a residential one because more people pass through it, not necessarily because residents are more likely to be a victim. Recorded crime is also only crime that was reported and recorded, and reporting rates vary by crime type and by area.
Use this to see the shape of a city and to prompt better questions, not to decide that one district is good and another bad.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on Bristol crime counts: a wide gap that mostly reflects footfall
Taken together, 10 Bristol districts saw 7,987 crimes recorded in July 2026, from 147 in BS9 to 1,917 in BS2, a gap that wide mostly tracks footfall, shops and nightlife rather than where is pleasant to live.
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Sell houseA buyer’s best use of this table is to frame questions: violent crime was 30% of what police recorded, so ask whether it is common on the road itself.
Walk the street after dark and on a weekday morning, study the police’s street-level map for that postcode, and let your conveyancer chase any disclosure.
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Key figures
Bristol crime counts at a glance
Police records for July 2026. A count near each district centre is not a safety ranking.
Lowest district
147
BS9, crimes recorded
Middle district
698
Median of the districts
Highest district
1,917
BS2, crimes recorded
Top category
Violence
2,391 of 7,987 crimes
Recorded crime
Bristol crime by category and district
7,987 recorded crimes across 10 districts in July 2026.
By category
What the recorded crimes were
Violent crime was the most recorded category, with 2,391 of 7,987 crimes (30%). It describes the month's police records, not what is likely to happen to you.
See the figures
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 2,391 | 30% |
| Anti social behaviour | 1,107 | 14% |
| Shoplifting | 785 | 10% |
| Other theft | 703 | 9% |
| Criminal damage arson | 655 | 8% |
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
By district
Bristol districts, lowest recorded count first
Counts run from 147 in BS9 to 1,917 in BS2. Each row is one postcode district: how many crimes police recorded within about a mile of its centre.
See the figures
| District | Recorded crimes | Most recorded category | Area data |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS9 | 147 | Violent crime (40) | BS9 area report |
| BS16 | 282 | Violent crime (107) | BS16 area report |
| BS4 | 446 | Violent crime (150) | BS4 area report |
| BS8 | 462 | Violent crime (111) | BS8 area report |
| BS7 | 519 | Violent crime (181) | BS7 area report |
| BS3 | 698 | Violent crime (232) | BS3 area report |
| BS5 | 777 | Violent crime (252) | BS5 area report |
| BS6 | 870 | Violent crime (246) | BS6 area report |
| BS1 | 1,869 | Violent crime (500) | BS1 area report |
| BS2 | 1,917 | Violent crime (572) | BS2 area report |
Districts with no figure published for July 2026 are left out rather than shown as zero: a force not having published yet is not the same fact as no crime.
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
Reading the numbers
What the numbers show
Across the 10 Bristol postcode districts with a published figure for July 2026, police recorded 7,987 crimes in total within roughly a mile of each district centroid. The median district recorded 608.5.
BS9 has the lowest recorded crime count of the districts listed (147), and BS2 the highest (1,917).
The spread across the city is wide: the highest-counting district recorded about 13.0 times as many crimes as the lowest. Much of a gap that size reflects what is in the radius: a city-centre district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one before any difference in how people behave.
The most frequently recorded category across these districts was violent crime, at 30% of all recorded crimes in the month.
Questions, answered
Bristol recorded crime: your questions
How many crimes were recorded in Bristol?
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What is the most commonly recorded crime in Bristol?
Why does this page not rank Bristol districts by crime rate?
Source and method
Where these figures come from
data.police.uk street-level crime API (API documentation), month 2026-07, one request per district at its centroid, ~1 mile radius. England and Wales only. Data.police.uk does not carry Police Scotland or PSNI. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crime locations published by police forces are snapped to anonymised map points to protect victims, so a point is never an exact address. A guide is only generated for a city where at least 5 of its districts have a published figure.
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