Crime Statistics for Ratcliff, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

Crime statistics for Ratcliff, London

There were a total of 7 street level crime incidents in Ratcliff in February 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 CategoryIncidents
Theft From The Person3
Violent Crime2
Possession Of Weapons1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime7

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Ratcliff

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Spitalfields (1.39 miles)720
Wapping (0.62 miles)243
Shadwell7
Ratcliff7
Bermondsey (1.39 miles)2
Mile End (1.39 miles)2
Bow Common (1.39 miles)1
Millwall (1.39 miles)1
Poplar (1.24 miles)0
Rotherhithe (0.62 miles)0

55.23%
of Whitechapel residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ratcliff?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Spitalfields104
Wapping32
Shadwell2
Ratcliff2
Bermondsey1
Millwall1
Mile End0
Bow Common0
Poplar0
Rotherhithe0

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

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 Ratcliff 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 Ratcliff compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ratcliff and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Ratcliff is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Shadwell78
2Limehouse77
3Stepney Green77
4South Bermondsey75
5St Dunstan's72
6Rotherhithe70
7Whitechapel69
8Surrey Docks65
9St Katharine's & Wapping52
10North Bermondsey52

Which road in Ratcliff has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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