Crime Statistics for Bethnal Green, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

Is Bethnal Green rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 2239 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 Bethnal Green, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime486
Anti Social Behaviour362
Other Theft290
Shoplifting221
Theft From The Person197
Burglary160
Public Order133
Drugs94
Criminal Damage Arson87
Robbery72
Vehicle Crime69
Bicycle Theft40
Other Crime19
Possession Of Weapons9
All Crime2239

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shoreditch (1.24 miles)3129
Spitalfields (0.88 miles)2482
St Luke’s (1.24 miles)2403
Bow (1.24 miles)2320
Bethnal Green2239
Haggerston (0.88 miles)1842
Wapping (1.24 miles)1800
Dalston (1.24 miles)1601
Hackney (1.24 miles)1562
Mile End (1.24 miles)1507

53.14%
of Spitalfields & Banglatown residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bethnal Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bow767
Shoreditch693
Bethnal Green486
St Luke’s483
Spitalfields466
Hackney425
Dalston420
Mile End403
Haggerston401
Wapping367

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

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 Bethnal Green 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 Bethnal Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Weavers91
2Haggerston86
3St Peter's86
4Spitalfields & Banglatown81
5Hoxton East & Shoreditch79
6Bishopsgate3
7Portsoken3

Which road in Bethnal Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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