Crime Statistics for Bethnal Green, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

There were a total of 564 street level crime incidents in Bethnal Green in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	102
Violent Crime	98
Other Theft	95
Public Order	61
Drugs	58
Shoplifting	58
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Robbery	14
Burglary	13
Bicycle Theft	9
Possession Of Weapons	6
Other Crime	5
Vehicle Crime	3
All Crime	564

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bethnal Green. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bethnal Green

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bethnal Green and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bethnal Green has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Spitalfields (0.88 miles)	720
St Luke’s (1.24 miles)	644
Shoreditch (1.24 miles)	644
Bethnal Green	564
Wapping (1.24 miles)	243
Haggerston (0.88 miles)	230
Bow (1.24 miles)	97
Mile End (1.24 miles)	2
Dalston (1.24 miles)	1
Hackney (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Bethnal Green?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bethnal Green and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Spitalfields	104
Bethnal Green	98
St Luke’s	96
Shoreditch	96
Haggerston	39
Wapping	32
Bow	22
Dalston	1
Hackney	1
Mile End	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bethnal Green?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bethnal Green to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bethnal Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bethnal Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Bethnal Green is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Weavers	91
2	Haggerston	86
3	St Peter's	86
4	Spitalfields & Banglatown	81
5	Hoxton East & Shoreditch	79
6	Bishopsgate	3
7	Portsoken	3

Which road in Bethnal Green has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bethnal Green with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Lomas Street.