Crime Statistics for Millwall, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Millwall in September 2024. There were a total of 1780 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour394
Violent Crime376
Shoplifting178
Other Theft138
Vehicle Crime122
Theft From The Person112
Public Order98
Burglary98
Drugs82
Criminal Damage Arson82
Robbery56
Bicycle Theft22
Other Crime14
Possession Of Weapons8
All Crime1780

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 Millwall. 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 Millwall

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shadwell (1.39 miles)1948
Blackwall (0.88 miles)1833
Millwall1673
Ratcliff (1.39 miles)1454
Rotherhithe (1.24 miles)1282
Evelyn (0.67 miles)1039
Isle of Dogs (0.62 miles)1006
Cubitt Town (0.62 miles)964
Bow Common (1.24 miles)960
Poplar (0.62 miles)932

48.95%
of Island Gardens residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Millwall?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bow Common486
Blackwall480
Ratcliff446
Shadwell438
Poplar409
Rotherhithe381
Millwall376
Evelyn233
Isle of Dogs220
Cubitt Town208

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

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 Millwall 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 Millwall compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Peninsula84
2Mile End83
3Limehouse77
4Brockley74
5Greenwich West70
6Poplar70
7Rotherhithe70
8Surrey Docks65
9Evelyn64
10Island Gardens34
11Canary Wharf28

Which road in Millwall has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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