Ashley
WardEast Bristol. About 21,827 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 70% of people in Ashley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashley compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashley at a rate of 176.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 148.6 per 1,000 people across Bristol.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 328 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,256), other crime (781) and anti-social behaviour (711).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Bristol
These figures are published for the whole of Bristol, not for each ward, so they describe all of Bristol and not Ashley alone. See Bristol
Ashley in brief
Ashley had 20,002 usual residents at the census.
About 70% of people in Ashley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashley, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ashley, 4.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.