Total Crime Rate
482.5 per 1,000
All offences Β· Oct 2024 - Sep 2025Bacon Street area has the 18th highest crime rate of 65 local areas in Spitalfields & Banglatown , and the 58th highest crime rate of 710 local areas in Tower Hamlets .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Bacon Street (E1 6LF) in the last 12 months was 482.5 per 1,000 residents and was 44.0% higher than the Spitalfields & Banglatown average (335.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this areaβs most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 32 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 2 cases , down -50.0% compared to 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Bicycle theft ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 21 (β 92.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -34.4% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -46.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Bacon Street (E1 6LF), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Brick Lane, where police recorded 146 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Code Street (49 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Spitalfields & Banglatown| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Palissy Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Arnold Circus | β |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Arnold Circus | β |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Arnold Circus | β |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Arnold Circus | β |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Arnold Circus | Local resolution |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Arnold Circus | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Rhoda Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Palissy Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Rhoda Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Chance Street | β |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Chance Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Tomlinson Close | β |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Tomlinson Close | β |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Tomlinson Close | β |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Tomlinson Close | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Possession of weapons | Chance Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Rhoda Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Rhoda Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Sclater Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Navarre Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Satchwell Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Possession of weapons | Ligonier Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ligonier Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Camlet Street | β |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Corbet Place | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Corbet Place | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Navarre Street | β |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Sclater Street | Under investigation |
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