Total Crime Rate
111.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
49.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Cephas Street area has the 36th lowest crime rate of 88 local areas in Bethnal Green East , and the 278th lowest crime rate of 693 local areas in Tower Hamlets .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Cephas Street (E1 4JD) in the last 12 months was 111.1 per 1,000 residents and was 21.7% 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 10 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 15 (≈ 49.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -36.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Cephas Street (E1 4JD), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Cleveland Grove, where police recorded 118 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Mile End Road (28 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 | Mile End Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shopping Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shopping Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Globe Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Globe Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Boyton Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Braintree Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Globe Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Braintree Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Braintree Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cephas Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Cephas Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Theven Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Hayfield Passage | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shopping Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cornwall Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Colebert Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Cleveland Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Cleveland Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Cleveland Grove | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Cleveland Grove | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Cleveland Grove | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Cleveland Grove | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cleveland Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Herald Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Assembly Passage | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Herald Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Hannibal Road | Under investigation |
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