Total Crime Rate
234.3 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
62.8 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Queens Road area has the 9th highest crime rate of 78 local areas in Hoe Street , and the 68th highest crime rate of 687 local areas in Waltham Forest .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Queens Road (E17 8PU) in the last 12 months was 234.3 per 1,000 residents and was 102.2% higher than the Hoe Street average (115.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 32 offences recorded. The least common crime was Robbery with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Vehicle crime ( -22.2% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 26 (≈ 62.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -57.2% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Queens Road (E17 8PU), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Hoe Street, where police recorded 184 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Tower Mews (44 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Markhouse| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Third Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Bus/Coach Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Tower Mews | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Cedars Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Daventry Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Daventry Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ledger Mews | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bus/Coach Station | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bus/Coach Station | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bus/Coach Station | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bus/Coach Station | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Daventry Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Daventry Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pendlestone Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pendlestone Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Pendlestone Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Grosvenor Park Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grosvenor Park Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Stanhope Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Ledger Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ledger Mews | — |
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