Total Crime Rate
260.5 per 1,000
All offences Β· May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
65.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Dock Cottages area has the 10th highest crime rate of 41 local areas in Limehouse , and the 171st highest crime rate of 693 local areas in Tower Hamlets .
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 Dock Cottages (E1W 3DJ) in the last 12 months was 260.5 per 1,000 residents and was 113.5% higher than the Limehouse average (122.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this areaβs most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 47 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Burglary ( -20.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 36 (β 65.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -47.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Dock Cottages (E1W 3DJ), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Hardinge Street, where police recorded 46 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Brodlove Lane (19 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In St Katharine's & Wapping| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Solander Gardens | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Oyster Row | β |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Elf Row | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Elf Row | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Brodlove Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Cable Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sutton Street | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sutton Street | β |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oyster Row | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Elf Row | β |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oyster Row | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Martineau Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Martineau Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hardinge Street | β |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Ronald Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Monza Street | β |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Wapping Wall | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Elf Row | β |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Monza Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Elf Row | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | King David Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Glamis Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Solander Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Twine Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Milk Yard | β |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Milk Yard | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | King David Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Milk Yard | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | King David Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Glamis Place | Under investigation |
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