Crime Statistics for Canning Town, London, Newham, 2024

Is Canning Town rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 3486 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Canning Town, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime736
Anti Social Behaviour564
Drugs360
Other Theft332
Vehicle Crime300
Shoplifting296
Theft From The Person252
Public Order176
Burglary140
Criminal Damage Arson136
Robbery104
Other Crime42
Bicycle Theft28
Possession Of Weapons20
All Crime3486

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Canning Town. 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 Canning Town

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Bromley (1.24 miles)2782
Bow Common (1.86 miles)2453
Canning Town1748
Mill Meads (1.75 miles)1128
Blackwall (1.39 miles)1030
Cubitt Town (1.75 miles)976
Plaistow (0.62 miles)965
Beckton (1.86 miles)876
New Charlton (1.86 miles)809
Custom House (0.62 miles)665

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Where are the most violent places near Canning Town?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Bromley1228
Canning Town736
Bow Common551
Mill Meads291
Blackwall276
Plaistow220
New Charlton211
Cubitt Town195
Beckton165
Custom House154

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Canning Town?

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 Canning Town 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 Canning Town compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Canning Town North83
2Lansbury81
3Bromley South80
4Canning Town South80
5Plaistow South74
6Custom House72
7Poplar70
8East Ham South69
9Plaistow North57
10Royal Docks50
11Blackwall & Cubitt Town36

Which road in Canning Town has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Canning Town with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Rayleigh Road.

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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