Violence and Sexual offences reach a three year high in Bristol

In March 2026 there were 2,069 reports of "Violence and Sexual offences" crimes in Bristol. This is the highest number since I started collecting this data in June 2023.

This category of crime consistently has the highest number of reports.

There have been 60,059 "Violence and Sexual offences" reported since Jul 2023.

Only 7.27% of investigations resulted in action being taken.

These are the categories of actions taken.

This means of the 60,059 reported crimes, only 4,406 offenders had any action taken against them.

These are the March 2026 numbers for each Ward, ordered by "Population per Crime".

For example in March 2026 there was one report of a "Violence or sexual offence" for every 100.3 people in "Hartcliffe and Withywood".