Crime Statistics for Poplar, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

Is Poplar rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 2045 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour474
Violent Crime424
Other Theft142
Burglary142
Vehicle Crime140
Drugs134
Theft From The Person111
Public Order104
Shoplifting98
Criminal Damage Arson96
Robbery84
Bicycle Theft48
Other Crime32
Possession Of Weapons16
All Crime2045

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 Poplar. 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 Poplar

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Bromley (0.88 miles)2782
Poplar1747
Blackwall (0.62 miles)1687
Shadwell (1.24 miles)1653
Ratcliff (1.24 miles)1555
Bromley (1.24 miles)1266
Bow Common (0.62 miles)1213
Cubitt Town (0.88 miles)908
Isle of Dogs (1.24 miles)888
Millwall (0.62 miles)873

60.94%
of Canary Wharf residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Poplar?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Bromley1228
Shadwell435
Blackwall428
Poplar424
Ratcliff418
Bromley324
Bow Common276
Cubitt Town210
Isle of Dogs208
Millwall205

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

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 Poplar 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 Poplar compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Poplar and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Poplar have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Mile End.

#WardScore
1Mile End83
2Lansbury81
3Bromley South80
4Limehouse77
5Stepney Green77
6St Dunstan's72
7Poplar70
8Rotherhithe70
9Surrey Docks65
10Island Gardens34
11Canary Wharf28

Which road in Poplar has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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