Crime in Bristol
Thinking about Bristol? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Bristol, Bristol, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try bath, cardiff, exeter too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Bristol centre
1,928crimes recorded in July 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 552
- Anti-social behaviour 274
- Shoplifting 190
- Other theft 187
- 10 other categories 725
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences552
- Anti-social behaviour274
- Shoplifting190
- Other theft187
- Public order143
- Criminal damage & arson142
- Vehicle crime135
- Burglary80
- Bicycle theft60
- Robbery57
- Drugs43
- Theft from the person29
- Possession of weapons22
- Other crime14
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Bristol. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Bristol a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Bristol for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Bristol crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Bristol?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Bristol. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.