Total Crime Rate
513.3 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
201.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Hellier Walk area has the 4th highest crime rate of 40 local areas in Hartcliffe and Withywood , and the 60th highest crime rate of 1,343 local areas in Bristol, City of .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Hellier Walk (BS13 0DU) in the last 12 months was 513.3 per 1,000 residents and was 190.0% higher than the Hartcliffe and Withywood average (177.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 45 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other crime ( -60.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 53 (≈ 201.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -32.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 128.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Hellier Walk (BS13 0DU), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Peterson Square, where police recorded 112 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Silcox Road (47 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Hartcliffe and Withywood| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Great Wood Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Aldwick Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Aldwick Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Aldwick Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Crosscombe Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Peterson Square | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Peterson Square | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Peterson Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Peterson Square | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Peterson Square | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mellent Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mellent Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Mellent Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gibbsfold Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gibbsfold Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gibbsfold Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Gibbsfold Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mellent Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Peterson Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Great Wood Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Great Wood Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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