Crime Statistics for Bow, London, Tower Hamlets, 2025

Is Bow rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1342 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 Bow, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	395
Anti Social Behaviour	272
Other Theft	101
Theft From The Person	85
Vehicle Crime	76
Criminal Damage Arson	68
Public Order	65
Drugs	61
Shoplifting	57
Burglary	54
Robbery	49
Bicycle Theft	29
Other Crime	24
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	1342

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bethnal Green (1.24 miles)	2894
Mill Meads (1.39 miles)	1871
Mile End	1833
Bow	1342
Old Ford (0.62 miles)	1190
Bow Common (0.88 miles)	1025
South Bromley (1.39 miles)	991
Ratcliff (1.39 miles)	933
Stratford Marsh (0.88 miles)	899
Bromley (0.62 miles)	792

Where are the most violent places near Bow?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mill Meads	980
Bethnal Green	764
Mile End	651
Bromley	589
Bow	395
Old Ford	335
Bow Common	292
South Bromley	291
Stratford Marsh	284
Ratcliff	210

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

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 Bow 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 Bow compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter's	86
2	Bow West	85
3	Mile End	83
4	Bromley North	80
5	Bromley South	80
6	Shadwell	78
7	Limehouse	77
8	Stepney Green	77
9	Bethnal Green	76
10	St Dunstan's	72
11	Whitechapel	69

Which road in Bow has the highest level of crime?

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