Total Crime Rate
363.2 per 1,000
All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025Gorsuch Street area has the 28th highest crime rate of 65 local areas in Spitalfields & Banglatown , and the 98th highest crime rate of 710 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 Gorsuch Street (E2 8HA) in the last 12 months was 363.2 per 1,000 residents and was 8.4% higher than the Spitalfields & Banglatown average (335.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Bicycle theft with 18 offences recorded. The least common crime was Anti-social behaviour with 2 cases , down -60.0% compared to 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -66.7% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 14 (≈ 73.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -26.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 834.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Gorsuch Street (E2 8HA), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Strout'S Place, where police recorded 148 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Nightclub (44 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Jerrold Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Cremer Street | — |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Hassard Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Strout'S Place | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Robbery | Weymouth Terrace | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Bicycle theft | Weymouth Terrace | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Cremer Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Cremer Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Pelter Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Hassard Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Pelter Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Pelter Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Pelter Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Robbery | Appleby Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Appleby Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Vehicle crime | Hassard Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Hassard Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Theatre/Concert Hall | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Nightclub | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Vehicle crime | Waterson Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Redvers Street | — |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Strout'S Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Tabernacle Gardens | Awaiting court outcome |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Strout'S Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Strout'S Place | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Ravenscroft Street | — |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Gascoigne Place | — |
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