Crime Statistics for Forest Gate, London, Newham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Forest Gate in October 2024. There were a total of 2550 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 Forest Gate, 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	538
Anti Social Behaviour	528
Other Theft	262
Shoplifting	238
Theft From The Person	176
Vehicle Crime	167
Public Order	134
Criminal Damage Arson	114
Robbery	106
Drugs	104
Burglary	92
Bicycle Theft	43
Other Crime	32
Possession Of Weapons	16
All Crime	2550

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 Forest Gate. 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 Forest Gate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stratford New Town (1.39 miles)	3188
Forest Gate	2422
Stratford (1.39 miles)	1603
Manor Park (1.24 miles)	1489
Plashet (0.88 miles)	1427
Little Ilford (1.86 miles)	1359
Mill Meads (1.75 miles)	1190
Temple Mills (1.86 miles)	1167
Cranbrook (1.75 miles)	630
Aldersbrook (1.24 miles)	582

Where are the most violent places near Forest Gate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stratford New Town	1041
Forest Gate	538
Manor Park	440
Plashet	326
Little Ilford	314
Mill Meads	266
Stratford	261
Temple Mills	225
Cranbrook	180
Aldersbrook	105

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

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 Forest Gate 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 Forest Gate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Forest Gate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Forest Gate is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Forest Gate South	81
2	Cathall	69
3	West Ham	69
4	Manor Park	66
5	Boleyn	64
6	Forest Gate North	64
7	Leytonstone	64
8	Green Street West	62
9	Cann Hall	60
10	Green Street East	60
11	Plaistow North	57

Which road in Forest Gate has the highest level of crime?

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