Total Crime Rate

637.5 per 1,000 10/10 · Very High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 05.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 637.5 10/10
  • Theft from the person 144.2 10/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 130.7 10/10
  • Other theft 97.0 10/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 79.5 10/10
  • Drugs 59.3 10/10
  • Burglary 39.1 10/10
  • Vehicle crime 25.6 10/10
  • Robbery 24.3 10/10
  • Bicycle theft 13.5 10/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 8.1 6/10
  • Public order 8.1 6/10
  • Other crime 5.4 7/10
  • Shoplifting 2.7 1/10
  • Possession of weapons 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Luke Street area has the 13th highest crime rate of 65 local areas in Spitalfields & Banglatown , and the 33rd highest crime rate of 710 local areas in Tower Hamlets .

The streets immediately around this postcode mostly have high or very high crime levels, and on average the bordering areas are much more affected by crime than this postcode itself.

The overall crime rate in the area around Luke Street (EC2A 4LH) in the last 12 months was 637.5 per 1,000 residents and was 90.2% higher than the Spitalfields & Banglatown average (335.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Theft from the person with 107 offences recorded. The least common crime was Shoplifting with 2 cases , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Bicycle theft ( 66.7% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -45.5% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 121 (≈ 163.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 11.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 31.2% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Luke Street (EC2A 4LH), the main crime hotspot is near Nightclub. Police recorded 449 crimes here, including 119 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.

Crime Over Time in Luke Street area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Other theft Further/Higher Educational Building Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Drugs Further/Higher Educational Building Local resolution
Sep 2025Robbery Boot Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Robbery Boot Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Boot Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Drugs Boot Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Mills Court Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Conference/Exhibition Centre Under investigation
Sep 2025Theft from the person Conference/Exhibition Centre Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Conference/Exhibition Centre Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Further/Higher Educational Building Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Drugs Further/Higher Educational Building Under investigation
Sep 2025Theft from the person Boot Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Further/Higher Educational Building Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Primrose Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Robbery Appold Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Appold Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Appold Street
Sep 2025Theft from the person Nightclub Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Nightclub Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Other crime Fairchild Place Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Fairchild Place Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Robbery Boot Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Theft from the person Boot Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Other theft Hewett Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Rivington Place Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Other theft Dysart Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Other theft Clere Place Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Clere Place Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Clere Place

Data Sources

StreetScan crime figures are based on official UK open data:

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