Council area

Newham crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 50,785 street-crime records for the Newham council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 10.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 144.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 127.5 for Metropolitan Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area Newham council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Newham: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

50,785

Latest month (August 2026)

4,123

Year-on-year

+10.4%

Month-by-month totals

4.1k

Sep

4.6k

Oct

4.3k

Nov

4.1k

Dec

4.0k

Jan

3.8k

Feb

4.4k

Mar

4.2k

Apr

4.5k

May

4.2k

Jun

4.5k

Jul

4.1k

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	4,098
October 2025	4,614
November 2025	4,272
December 2025	4,086
January 2026	4,041
February 2026	3,817
March 2026	4,355
April 2026	4,184
May 2026	4,496
June 2026	4,203
July 2026	4,496
August 2026	4,123

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

Newham council area

144.7

Metropolitan Police

127.5

Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.

50,785 records and 351,030 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of the Newham council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in the Newham council area

Records by part of the Newham council area: the north-west 13,096, the north-east 7,716, the north 6,706, the south-west 5,051, the south 4,716, the east 4,459, the south-east 4,442, the west 4,161, the centre 608.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of the Newham council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Newham council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Newham council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Newham council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Newham council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	37,262
2022	38,917
2023	42,489
2024	45,227
2025	47,439
2026 (part year)	33,715

Police forces

The Newham council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Metropolitan Police (99.9%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%), Bedfordshire Police (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%), Norfolk Constabulary (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), City of London Police (0.0%), Leicestershire Police (0.0%), Warwickshire Police (0.0%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.0%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Lancashire Constabulary (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E09000025), which can differ from the place people call Newham.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Newham. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.

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Council areas that share a postcode district with this one.

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CrimeMapsUK. Newham council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/council-areas/newham/