Total Crime Rate
227.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
110.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Pancras Way area has the 16th highest crime rate of 58 local areas in Bow East , and the 214th 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 Pancras Way (E3 2SS) in the last 12 months was 227.0 per 1,000 residents and was 65.9% higher than the Bow East average (136.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 14 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 18 (≈ 110.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -35.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has flat ( 1.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Pancras Way (E3 2SS), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Iceland Road, where police recorded 73 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Usher Road (27 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Bow East| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Forum Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Morville Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hewison Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Wick Lane | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Wick Lane | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parnell Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Parnell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Parnell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Morville Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Morville Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | B142 | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Douro Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Douro Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Douro Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Blondin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Usher Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Dace Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Dace Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Dace Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Hewison Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | B142 | — |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Usher Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Springwood Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Blondin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Ordell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Ordell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fairfield Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fairfield Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tredegar Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Springwood Close | Under investigation |
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