Crime Rate in Tower Hamlets, ward

Tower Hamlets has the 7th highest crime rate of 17 wards in Dover district and the 2749th highest crime rate ward of 7,548 wards in England and Wales. Across the region (South East), it has the 362nd highest crime rate of 1,269 wards.

The overall crime rate in Tower Hamlets in the last 12 months was 79.8 per 1,000 residents and was 14.6% lower than the Dover district average (93.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, Tower Hamlets’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 205 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 2 cases , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 500.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other crime ( -44.0% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 235 (≈ 44.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( -1.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -24.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the Tower Hamlets ward, the highest concentration of overall crime occurs near Supermarket, with 134 recorded incidents. Violent and public-order offences happen most frequently around Chamberlain Road (40 offences). Both locations are situated within roughly 0.3 miles of each other.