Crime Statistics for Little Ilford, London, Newham, 2025

Is Little Ilford rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1288 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 Little Ilford, 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	318
Anti Social Behaviour	170
Theft From The Person	164
Other Theft	112
Vehicle Crime	104
Shoplifting	93
Drugs	79
Robbery	63
Burglary	61
Criminal Damage Arson	56
Public Order	50
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	5
All Crime	1288

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 Little Ilford. 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 Little Ilford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plashet (1.39 miles)	1878
Fair Cross (1.24 miles)	1098
Forest Gate (1.86 miles)	1064
Little Ilford	1046
Goodmayes (1.96 miles)	1001
Manor Park (0.62 miles)	951
Ilford (0.88 miles)	943
Barking (0.88 miles)	753
Wallend (1.24 miles)	736
Cranbrook (1.39 miles)	431

Where are the most violent places near Little Ilford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Goodmayes	656
Plashet	452
Fair Cross	446
Little Ilford	318
Ilford	257
Wallend	254
Forest Gate	227
Barking	217
Manor Park	191
Cranbrook	92

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

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 Little Ilford 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 Little Ilford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Ilford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Little Ilford have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Ilford Town.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ilford Town	82
2	Abbey	74
3	East Ham Central	74
4	Clementswood	71
5	Loxford	70
6	Valentines	68
7	Manor Park	66
8	Little Ilford	64
9	Longbridge	61
10	Wall End	61
11	East Ham North	57

Which road in Little Ilford has the highest level of crime?

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