Crime Statistics for Old Ford, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Old Ford in August 2024. There were a total of 1607 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	417
Violent Crime	384
Drugs	156
Theft From The Person	135
Public Order	104
Burglary	82
Criminal Damage Arson	66
Other Theft	63
Vehicle Crime	55
Robbery	54
Shoplifting	44
Other Crime	17
Bicycle Theft	16
Possession Of Weapons	14
All Crime	1607

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bethnal Green (1.39 miles)	4805
Bow (0.62 miles)	1580
Mile End (0.62 miles)	1580
Stratford Marsh (0.62 miles)	1556
Bromley (0.88 miles)	1307
Old Ford	1163
South Hackney (0.88 miles)	1130
Stratford (1.39 miles)	1041
Mill Meads (1.24 miles)	923
Hackney Wick (0.88 miles)	909

Where are the most violent places near Old Ford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bethnal Green	812
South Hackney	503
Bow	389
Mile End	389
Old Ford	384
Stratford Marsh	349
Bromley	316
Hackney Wick	303
Mill Meads	229
Stratford	227

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

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 Old Ford 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 Old Ford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Old Ford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Old Ford is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter's	86
2	Bow West	85
3	Mile End	83
4	Bromley North	80
5	Bromley South	80
6	Victoria	80
7	Limehouse	77
8	Stepney Green	77
9	Bow East	76
10	Bethnal Green	76
11	St Dunstan's	72

Which road in Old Ford has the highest level of crime?

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