BS16 crime rate and statistics

The BS16 postcode district, in the BS (Bristol) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 8,696 street-crime records for BS16 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.7% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 95.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 113.1 for Avon and Somerset Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

8,696

Latest month (August 2026)

637

Year-on-year

+8.7%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 641
October 2025 722
November 2025 805
December 2025 786
January 2026 727
February 2026 630
March 2026 806
April 2026 740
May 2026 789
June 2026 680
July 2026 733
August 2026 637

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

BS16

95.3

Avon and Somerset Police

113.1

8,696 records and 91,209 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of BS16 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in BS16

Published street-crime records in BS16, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of BS16: the south-west 5,167, the south 3,666, the south-east 2,061, the west 1,944, the east 1,560, the centre 556, the north 316, the north-east 149, the north-west 67.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of BS16's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BS16's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of BS16 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BS16 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for BS16 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 6,720
2022 6,395
2023 6,501
2024 8,337
2025 8,155
2026 (part year) 5,742

Is BS16 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BS16 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BS16 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

BS16's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Avon and Somerset Police (99.9%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Wiltshire Police (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Norfolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in BS16

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
BS16 1 1,422
BS16 2 1,550
BS16 3 1,769
BS16 4 895
BS16 5 973
BS16 6 468
BS16 7 1,167
BS16 9 452

Council areas

BS16 is mostly in the South Gloucestershire council area, and also covers parts of the Bristol council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 91,209 Census 2021 residents of BS16.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 5.6% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 31.5% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About BS16 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £355,000 (684)
2025 £345,000 (1,267)
2024 £346,078 (1,218)
2023 £340,000 (1,248)
2022 £339,995 (1,579)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £515,000 (113) £382,500 (214) £342,250 (242) £195,000 (115)
2025 £512,225 (212) £375,000 (392) £335,000 (388) £210,000 (275)
2024 £500,000 (238) £375,000 (365) £335,000 (330) £202,000 (285)
2023 £515,000 (204) £375,000 (388) £325,000 (368) £210,000 (288)
2022 £505,000 (268) £370,000 (482) £330,000 (416) £219,995 (413)

Schools and colleges

38 open establishments with a postcode in BS16, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 38 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Little Hayes Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Avanti Gardens School Primary Free schools
Barley Close Community Primary School Primary Community school
Begbrook Primary Academy Primary Academy converter
Blackhorse Primary School Primary Academy converter
Bromley Heath Infant School Primary Community school
Bromley Heath Junior School Primary Community school
Chester Park Infant School Primary Community school
Chester Park Junior School Primary Community school
Christ Church, Church of England Infant School, Downend Primary Voluntary controlled school
Christ Church, Church of England Junior School, Downend Primary Voluntary controlled school
Emersons Green Primary School Primary Academy converter
Fishponds CofE Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Frenchay Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Frome Vale Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Hambrook Primary School Primary Community school
Lyde Green Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Mangotsfield Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Minerva Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Pucklechurch CofE VC Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Stanbridge Primary School Primary Academy converter
Staple Hill Primary School Primary Academy converter
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
The Tynings Primary School Primary Academy converter
Wallscourt Farm Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Bristol Metropolitan Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Downend School Secondary Academy converter
Lyde Green Community School Secondary Free schools
Mangotsfield School Secondary Academy sponsor led
Briarwood School – Community special school
Collegiate School – Other independent school
Elmtree Grove School Ltd – Other independent special school
Pathways Learning Centre – Academy alternative provision converter
Soundwell Academy – Free schools special
South Gloucestershire Hospital Home Teaching Service – Miscellaneous
St Matthias Academy – Academy alternative provision converter
University of the West of England, Bristol – Higher education institutions

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High16
Medium16
Low30
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 2,012 postcodes in BS16 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit74.3%89.9%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.2%99.0%

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CrimeMapsUK. BS16 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/bs16/

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