Crime Statistics for Ilford, London, Redbridge, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ilford in September 2024. There were a total of 931 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 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	256
Anti Social Behaviour	244
Other Theft	87
Vehicle Crime	66
Theft From The Person	54
Shoplifting	44
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Burglary	39
Public Order	29
Drugs	26
Robbery	23
Bicycle Theft	11
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	931

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Manor Park (1.39 miles)	2150
Little Ilford (0.88 miles)	1245
Newbury Park (1.24 miles)	1096
Fair Cross (0.88 miles)	943
Ilford	931
Barking (1.24 miles)	815
Goodmayes (1.24 miles)	545
Barkingside (1.86 miles)	382
Cranbrook (1.39 miles)	356
Aldborough Hatch (1.96 miles)	348

Where are the most violent places near Ilford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Manor Park	848
Newbury Park	385
Fair Cross	338
Little Ilford	299
Ilford	256
Barking	225
Goodmayes	222
Cranbrook	183
Barkingside	140
Aldborough Hatch	134

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in 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 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 Ilford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ilford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ilford is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ilford Town	82
2	Goodmayes	76
3	Clementswood	71
4	Loxford	70
5	Valentines	68
6	Mayfield	67
7	Cranbrook	64
8	Little Ilford	64
9	Longbridge	61
10	East Ham North	57
11	Newbury	50

Which road in Ilford has the highest level of crime?

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