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Bristol

Bristol is a city in Gloucestershire, England, with a population of around 479,024. It has 1 supermarket and around 17 restaurants and cafés, with 39 bus stops and the nearest railway station being Filton Abbey Wood, 0.7 km away. The average sold house price is around £411,678. There were around 324 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Bristol area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the South Gloucestershire area is among the least deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 290,424 residents at roughly 584 people per km².

Council
South Gloucestershire
County
Gloucestershire
Constituency
Filton and Bradley Stoke
Police force
Avon and Somerset
63/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 61st of 294 English council areas — better than 79% of them.

Low crime68
Home affordability54
Affordable rents30
Good schools56
Life expectancy80
Low deprivation84
Employment92
Low council tax21

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

19°COvercast

  • Today: 22° / 17° · 45% rain
  • Tomorrow: 19° / 13° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:42Sunset 19:29

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Bristol St Paul's, United Kingdom

Crime

365 reported · July 2026 29% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences112
  • Shoplifting68
  • Anti-social behaviour60
  • Criminal damage & arson27

Neighbourhood team: University of West of England · Avon And Somerset

Local policing priorities

  • Student safety and welfare should be a key priority for any university policing team because students often face new and unfamiliar chall…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

321 reported road collisions (2024)

45 killed or seriously injured · 424 casualties · 11.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 401 rated 4–5 ★ (341 top)
  • 12 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Filton Abbey Wood (0.7 km)
  • 39 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Filton Abbey Wood (1.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£340,300 average 2.3% YoY

Across South Gloucestershire · to 2026-06

Detached£560,532
Semi-detached£374,905
Terraced£296,347
Flat£178,243

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,456 average monthly rent 4.5% YoY

  • 1 bed £994
  • 2 bed £1,267
  • 3 bed £1,547

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (8.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (4.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (4.3 km)

36 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

150 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 48 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Business Car Park (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Gyms6
  • Swimming pools2
  • Sports pitches36
  • Playgrounds20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

290,424 residents in South Gloucestershire · 584/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 267 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,551 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (29% of 129,040)

A £1,700
B £1,984
C £2,267
D £2,551
E £3,117
F £3,684
G £4,251
H £5,101

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

125 schools · 42,025 pupils

93 primary · 14 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 51 of 57 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

117inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Chipping Sodbury SchoolGood
  • Digitech Studio SchoolGood
  • Hanham Woods AcademyGood
  • Mangotsfield SchoolGood
  • Marlwood SchoolGood
  • Sir Bernard Lovell AcademyGood
  • Winterbourne AcademyGood
  • Yate AcademyGood
  • Abbeywood Community School
  • Brimsham Green School
  • Downend School
  • John Cabot Academy
  • Patchway Community School
  • The Castle School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Gloucestershire

Care & health services

282 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes82
  • GP practices38
  • Dentists42
  • Homecare agencies83
  • Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · South Gloucestershire

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 29 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

379 applications decided

88.7% granted · 336 granted, 43 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Claire Hazelgrove

Labour

Filton and Bradley Stoke

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat / Labour coalition

  • Lab 14
  • Con 23
  • LD 18
  • Grn 1
  • Oth 5

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools9
  • GPs & clinics5
  • Pharmacies3
  • Supermarkets8
  • Parks & greens51
  • Restaurants & cafés54

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

12,590 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

12,555 jobs advertised · £42,568 avg

e.g. Principal Engineer – Product Safety, Community Housing Manager, Team Member Plus - Lifeguard

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£793 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,750 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 124,171 certificates

7.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

23% low-carbon electricity

Gas 77% · Solar 15% · Wind 8%

303 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85.1 yrs women · 81.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 64 women · 64.2 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.7
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Filton and Bradley Stoke:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Bristol?
Bristol is a town in Gloucestershire, England, in the South Gloucestershire local authority.
What is the population of Bristol?
Bristol has an approximate settlement population of 479,024.
How deprived is Bristol?
The South Gloucestershire local authority, which includes Bristol, is among the least deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.