Crime Statistics for Canning Town, London, Newham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Canning Town in August 2024. There were a total of 603 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	183
Violent Crime	182
Public Order	41
Theft From The Person	36
Drugs	31
Burglary	27
Vehicle Crime	22
Robbery	21
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	16
Shoplifting	13
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	603

Map of street level crime incidents in August 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Bow Common (1.86 miles)	1373
Blackwall (1.39 miles)	1300
Mill Meads (1.75 miles)	923
Plaistow (0.62 miles)	707
Cubitt Town (1.75 miles)	643
Canning Town	603
New Charlton (1.86 miles)	506
Custom House (0.62 miles)	461
Beckton (1.86 miles)	259
South Bromley (1.24 miles)	93

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Bow Common	427
Blackwall	377
Plaistow	236
Mill Meads	229
Canning Town	182
Cubitt Town	167
New Charlton	150
Custom House	149
South Bromley	83
Beckton	67

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Canning Town North	83
2	Lansbury	81
3	Bromley South	80
4	Canning Town South	80
5	Plaistow South	74
6	Custom House	72
7	Poplar	70
8	East Ham South	69
9	Plaistow North	57
10	Royal Docks	50
11	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	36

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 this marker.