Crime Statistics for Shadwell, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shadwell in October 2024. There were a total of 1252 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 Shadwell, 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	286
Anti Social Behaviour	271
Other Theft	116
Theft From The Person	108
Vehicle Crime	70
Drugs	67
Burglary	67
Robbery	58
Public Order	56
Criminal Damage Arson	56
Shoplifting	48
Bicycle Theft	34
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	1252

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 Shadwell. 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 Shadwell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bermondsey (1.39 miles)	4512
Spitalfields (1.39 miles)	3003
Ratcliff	2302
Wapping (0.62 miles)	2046
Mile End (1.39 miles)	1768
Poplar (1.24 miles)	1424
Shadwell	1252
Bow Common (1.39 miles)	1040
Millwall (1.39 miles)	972
Rotherhithe (0.62 miles)	930

Where are the most violent places near Shadwell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bermondsey	750
Ratcliff	523
Spitalfields	466
Mile End	406
Bow Common	405
Poplar	380
Wapping	366
Shadwell	286
Rotherhithe	280
Millwall	209

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

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 Shadwell 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 Shadwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shadwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shadwell is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shadwell	78
2	Limehouse	77
3	Stepney Green	77
4	South Bermondsey	75
5	St Dunstan's	72
6	Rotherhithe	70
7	Whitechapel	69
8	Surrey Docks	65
9	St Katharine's & Wapping	52
10	North Bermondsey	52

Which road in Shadwell has the highest level of crime?

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