Crime Statistics for Plaistow, London, Newham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Plaistow in October 2024. There were a total of 1099 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 Plaistow, 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	271
Anti Social Behaviour	175
Vehicle Crime	120
Other Theft	111
Shoplifting	101
Drugs	64
Public Order	60
Theft From The Person	56
Criminal Damage Arson	51
Robbery	29
Burglary	23
Other Crime	16
Possession Of Weapons	13
Bicycle Theft	9
All Crime	1099

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 Plaistow. 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 Plaistow

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stratford New Town (1.75 miles)	3188
Stratford (1.75 miles)	1603
Plashet (1.39 miles)	1427
Bromley (1.86 miles)	1359
South Bromley (1.39 miles)	1276
Mill Meads (1.39 miles)	1190
Plaistow	1099
Blackwall (1.75 miles)	933
Canning Town (0.62 miles)	808
Custom House (0.88 miles)	684

Where are the most violent places near Plaistow?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stratford New Town	1041
Bromley	449
Plashet	326
Canning Town	325
South Bromley	280
Plaistow	271
Mill Meads	266
Stratford	261
Blackwall	244
Custom House	179

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

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 Plaistow 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 Plaistow compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Plaistow and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Plaistow is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Canning Town North	83
2	Lansbury	81
3	Canning Town South	80
4	Plaistow South	74
5	Custom House	72
6	East Ham South	69
7	West Ham	69
8	Green Street West	62
9	Plaistow North	57
10	Royal Docks	50
11	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	36

Which road in Plaistow has the highest level of crime?

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