Crime Statistics for South Bromley, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Bromley in October 2024. There were a total of 1276 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 South Bromley, 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	280
Anti Social Behaviour	258
Shoplifting	124
Other Theft	116
Vehicle Crime	97
Drugs	75
Public Order	72
Burglary	61
Theft From The Person	55
Criminal Damage Arson	49
Robbery	41
Other Crime	21
Bicycle Theft	18
Possession Of Weapons	9
All Crime	1276

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 South Bromley. 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 South Bromley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bow (1.39 miles)	1768
Poplar (0.88 miles)	1424
Bromley (0.88 miles)	1359
South Bromley	1276
Mill Meads (1.24 miles)	1190
Plaistow (1.39 miles)	1099
Bow Common (0.62 miles)	1040
Cubitt Town (1.24 miles)	934
Blackwall (0.62 miles)	933
Canning Town (1.24 miles)	808

Where are the most violent places near South Bromley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bromley	449
Bow	406
Bow Common	405
Poplar	380
Canning Town	325
South Bromley	280
Plaistow	271
Mill Meads	266
Blackwall	244
Cubitt Town	220

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

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 South Bromley 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 South Bromley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bow West	85
2	Mile End	83
3	Lansbury	81
4	Bromley North	80
5	Bromley South	80
6	Limehouse	77
7	St Dunstan's	72
8	Poplar	70
9	Royal Docks	50
10	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	36
11	Canary Wharf	28

Which road in South Bromley has the highest level of crime?

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