Crime Statistics for Shadwell, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

Crime statistics for Shadwell, London

There were a total of 1057 street level crime incidents in Shadwell in January 2024. 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 Behaviour244
Violent Crime218
Theft From The Person118
Other Theft92
Vehicle Crime84
Public Order58
Burglary56
Criminal Damage Arson43
Robbery39
Shoplifting38
Drugs30
Bicycle Theft25
Possession Of Weapons6
Other Crime6
All Crime1057

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Spitalfields (1.39 miles)2507
Bermondsey (1.39 miles)1877
Wapping (0.62 miles)1742
Mile End (1.39 miles)1570
Bow Common (1.39 miles)1179
Shadwell1057
Ratcliff1057
Poplar (1.24 miles)958
Rotherhithe (0.62 miles)901
Millwall (1.39 miles)894

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



Where are the most violent places near Shadwell?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Spitalfields417
Mile End406
Bermondsey365
Wapping302
Bow Common289
Poplar223
Shadwell218
Ratcliff218
Millwall203
Rotherhithe175

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

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 Shadwell 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 Shadwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shadwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Shadwell 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 Shadwell has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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