Crime Statistics for Mill Meads, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mill Meads in October 2024. There were a total of 1190 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 Mill Meads, 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	266
Anti Social Behaviour	246
Other Theft	101
Drugs	88
Theft From The Person	81
Vehicle Crime	78
Burglary	64
Public Order	62
Shoplifting	60
Robbery	48
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Bicycle Theft	28
Other Crime	21
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	1190

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 Mill Meads. 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 Mill Meads

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stratford New Town (0.62 miles)	3188
Bow (1.39 miles)	1768
Mile End (1.39 miles)	1768
Stratford (0.62 miles)	1603
Hackney Wick (0.88 miles)	1392
Bromley (0.88 miles)	1359
South Bromley (1.24 miles)	1276
Stratford Marsh (0.62 miles)	1196
Mill Meads	1190
Old Ford (1.24 miles)	1075

Where are the most violent places near Mill Meads?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stratford New Town	1041
Old Ford	554
Bromley	449
Bow	406
Mile End	406
South Bromley	280
Stratford Marsh	277
Mill Meads	266
Stratford	261
Hackney Wick	256

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

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 Mill Meads 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 Mill Meads compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Mill Meads and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Mill Meads is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hackney Wick	87
2	Bow West	85
3	Mile End	83
4	Lansbury	81
5	Forest Gate South	81
6	Bromley North	80
7	Bromley South	80
8	Stratford and New Town	79
9	Bow East	76
10	Poplar	70
11	West Ham	69

Which road in Mill Meads has the highest level of crime?

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