Crime Statistics for Canning Town, London, Newham, 2025

Is Canning Town rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 755 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 Canning Town, 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	180
Anti Social Behaviour	130
Vehicle Crime	76
Other Theft	71
Shoplifting	63
Drugs	43
Theft From The Person	41
Robbery	35
Public Order	32
Burglary	29
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Other Crime	13
Bicycle Theft	8
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	755

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mill Meads (1.75 miles)	1871
Bow Common (1.86 miles)	1025
South Bromley (1.24 miles)	991
Custom House (0.62 miles)	957
Plaistow (0.62 miles)	941
New Charlton (1.86 miles)	793
Blackwall (1.39 miles)	756
Canning Town	755
Cubitt Town (1.75 miles)	716
Beckton (1.86 miles)	397

Where are the most violent places near Canning Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mill Meads	980
New Charlton	352
Bow Common	292
South Bromley	291
Custom House	286
Blackwall	254
Plaistow	202
Cubitt Town	186
Canning Town	180
Beckton	139

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

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 Canning Town 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 Canning Town compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Canning Town North	83
2	Lansbury	81
3	Bromley South	80
4	Canning Town South	80
5	Plaistow South	74
6	Custom House	72
7	Poplar	70
8	East Ham South	69
9	Plaistow North	57
10	Royal Docks	50
11	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	36

Which road in Canning Town has the highest level of crime?

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