Crime Statistics for Ratcliff, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ratcliff in September 2024. There were a total of 1877 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ratcliff, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	446
Anti Social Behaviour	412
Theft From The Person	188
Other Theft	167
Vehicle Crime	119
Shoplifting	116
Burglary	102
Public Order	84
Criminal Damage Arson	78
Robbery	67
Bicycle Theft	60
Drugs	25
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	1877

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ratcliff. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Ratcliff

We've taken the ten nearest places to Ratcliff and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Ratcliff has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Spitalfields (1.39 miles)	2415
Bermondsey (1.39 miles)	2158
Shadwell	1948
Millwall (1.39 miles)	1673
Wapping (0.62 miles)	1602
Ratcliff	1454
Mile End (1.39 miles)	1337
Rotherhithe (0.62 miles)	1282
Bow Common (1.39 miles)	960
Poplar (1.24 miles)	932

Where are the most violent places near Ratcliff?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Ratcliff and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Mile End	538
Bow Common	486
Ratcliff	446
Shadwell	438
Poplar	409
Rotherhithe	381
Millwall	376
Wapping	360
Spitalfields	338
Bermondsey	329

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Ratcliff?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Ratcliff to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Ratcliff compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ratcliff and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ratcliff is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shadwell	78
2	Limehouse	77
3	Stepney Green	77
4	South Bermondsey	75
5	St Dunstan's	72
6	Rotherhithe	70
7	Whitechapel	69
8	Surrey Docks	65
9	St Katharine's & Wapping	52
10	North Bermondsey	52

Which road in Ratcliff has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Ratcliff with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.