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Bristol in numbers - 2025 Review

Here are some of the numbers that help tell the story of Bristol in 2025.

Councillor News Articles

See Also: Councillor Remuneration 2025, Councillor Musical Chairs, Conservatives Councillors are the most green, What do you know about your Councillors? and Seven of our Councillors are missing?

These are the Top 20 Councillors who were mentioned most often in news stories in 2025.

Councillor News Stories by Party

Councillor News Stories by Month

FixMyStreet Reports

See Also: Bristol in one day (16/12/2025), Bristol Stool Map, Have you done the "Bristol Flag Trail" yet?, Did you go to the tip this weekend?, Flytipping reports likely to increase by 3000% in 2025 and "This Fix My Street enquiry has been automatically closed."

42,283 reports were made on FixMyStrees in Bristol during 2025.

Flytipping

The most popular theme was for Flytipping reports which made up 33% (13,814) of all reports.

The first Flytipping report of 2025 was Closed without being "Fixed"

The last Flytipping report of 2025 is due to be cleared soon.

These are the Ward number for Flytipping reports

Flag Map

A new theme for 2025 was "Flag Reports".

Stool Map

The "Bristol Stool Map" shows the increase in reports of this type in 2025.

Freedom of Information

See Also: The Data Detectives at BCC

Bristol continued to fail to meet the ICO target of 90% of FOI requests being dealt with in a timely manner.

What Do They Know FOI Requests

388 FOI Requests were made via the WhatDoTheyKnow website in 2025.

These are the top WDTK FOI requesters.

ICO Notices

These are the ICO Notices that have been published in 2025.

Avon Fire and Rescue

See Also: Avon Fire and Rescue - Requires Improvement and More Funding?

5,660 incidents were logged for Bristol in 2025. Figure for Dec 2025 have not been published yet.

Avon & Somerset Police

See Also: Crime Report - Apr 24 to Mar 25

50,525 crime reports were made in Bristol during 2025. Figure for Dec 2025 have not been published yet.

Housing

See Also: 2025 Annual Report for Tenants and Leaseholders - Don't trust the numbers!, Bristol Airbnb grows by 23% in 6 months, 71% more students are on their way to Southville and Bedminster is the HMO Capital of Bristol

HMO Density

These are the Wards with the highest level of HMO Density.

Airbnb

These are the Wards with the biggest growth in Airbnb lets.

These are the figures published in the 2025 Report from Bristol City Council.

Council Spending

See Also: Council Spending 2025

BCC reported spending (over £500) of £712 Million in 2025. Figure for Dec 2025 have not been published yet.

Council Tax

People who write about Bristol

John Langley (The Almighty Gob) is by far the most prolific blogger who writes about Bristol.

In 2025 I published 88 articles about "Bristol Data".

In the interests of transparency, here are some of the usage statistics for bristol-uncovered.uk for 2025 (the site launched in Feb 2025).

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