Total Crime Rate
68.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
20.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Grantley Street area has the 17th lowest crime rate of 88 local areas in Bethnal Green East , and the 141st lowest crime rate of 693 local areas in Tower Hamlets .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Grantley Street (E1 4BT) in the last 12 months was 68.0 per 1,000 residents and was 52.1% lower than the Bethnal Green East average (142.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 7 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 6 (≈ 20.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 20.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 50.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Grantley Street (E1 4BT), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Stepney Green, where police recorded 319 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Hospital (208 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Bethnal Green East| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bancroft Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Beaumont Grove | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bancroft Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stepney Green | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Knottisford Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Theatre/Concert Hall | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Theatre/Concert Hall | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Theatre/Concert Hall | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Stepney Green | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Knottisford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Knottisford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Knottisford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Knottisford Street | — |
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