Crime Statistics for Spitalfields, City of London, County of the City of London, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spitalfields in October 2024. There were a total of 3003 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	547
Other Theft	524
Violent Crime	466
Anti Social Behaviour	402
Shoplifting	288
Public Order	167
Burglary	140
Criminal Damage Arson	103
Bicycle Theft	86
Vehicle Crime	85
Robbery	84
Drugs	82
Other Crime	17
Possession Of Weapons	12
All Crime	3003

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Spitalfields. 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 Spitalfields

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

Location	Crime Incidents
London (1.24 miles)	10372
Finsbury (1.39 miles)	4617
Bermondsey (1.24 miles)	4512
Bethnal Green (0.88 miles)	3045
Spitalfields	3003
St Luke’s (0.88 miles)	2784
Shoreditch (0.88 miles)	2784
Ratcliff (1.39 miles)	2302
Wapping (0.88 miles)	2046
Haggerston (1.24 miles)	50

Where are the most violent places near Spitalfields?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
London	1236
Bermondsey	750
Bethnal Green	575
Finsbury	551
Ratcliff	523
Spitalfields	466
St Luke’s	458
Shoreditch	458
Wapping	366
Haggerston	31

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

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 Spitalfields 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 Spitalfields compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score

Which road in Spitalfields has the highest level of crime?

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