Crime Statistics for Poplar, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Poplar in October 2024. There were a total of 1624 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 Poplar, 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	380
Anti Social Behaviour	366
Other Theft	144
Vehicle Crime	113
Burglary	104
Public Order	87
Shoplifting	83
Robbery	73
Theft From The Person	72
Drugs	70
Criminal Damage Arson	68
Bicycle Theft	34
Other Crime	26
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1624

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 Poplar. 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 Poplar

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ratcliff (1.24 miles)	2302
Poplar	1424
Bromley (1.24 miles)	1359
South Bromley (0.88 miles)	1276
Shadwell (1.24 miles)	1252
Isle of Dogs (1.24 miles)	1047
Bow Common (0.62 miles)	1040
Millwall (0.62 miles)	972
Cubitt Town (0.88 miles)	934
Blackwall (0.62 miles)	933

Where are the most violent places near Poplar?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ratcliff	523
Bromley	449
Bow Common	405
Poplar	380
Shadwell	286
South Bromley	280
Blackwall	244
Isle of Dogs	233
Cubitt Town	220
Millwall	209

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

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 Poplar 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 Poplar compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Poplar and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Poplar have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Mile End.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile End	83
2	Lansbury	81
3	Bromley South	80
4	Limehouse	77
5	Stepney Green	77
6	St Dunstan's	72
7	Poplar	70
8	Rotherhithe	70
9	Surrey Docks	65
10	Island Gardens	34
11	Canary Wharf	28

Which road in Poplar has the highest level of crime?

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