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Tower Hamlets crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 48,480 street-crime records for the Tower Hamlets council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 13.6% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 156.2 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 Tower Hamlets council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Tower Hamlets: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
48,480
Latest month (August 2026)
4,516
Year-on-year
+13.6%
Month-by-month totals
4,5540
4.0k
Sep
4.1k
Oct
4.0k
Nov
3.9k
Dec
3.4k
Jan
3.4k
Feb
3.8k
Mar
3.9k
Apr
4.6k
May
4.2k
Jun
4.5k
Jul
4.5k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
4,039
October 2025
4,121
November 2025
4,006
December 2025
3,855
January 2026
3,418
February 2026
3,436
March 2026
3,843
April 2026
3,928
May 2026
4,554
June 2026
4,246
July 2026
4,518
August 2026
4,516
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.
Tower Hamlets council area
156.2
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.
48,480 records and 310,386 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 Tower Hamlets 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.
Violence and sexual offences24.8%
12,030 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour22.0%
10,686 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting8.3%
4,005 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft8.1%
3,913 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Theft from the person5.9%
2,860 records · England and Wales 1.7%
Public order5.7%
2,749 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime5.5%
2,647 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Drugs5.3%
2,554 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Where records cluster in the Tower Hamlets council area
Records by part of the Tower Hamlets council area: the west 13,946, the north-west 10,000, the south-east 7,741, the east 6,282, the north 5,817, the north-east 5,040, the south-west 1,769, the south 1,149, the centre 517.
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 Tower Hamlets council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Tower Hamlets council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Tower Hamlets council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E09000030), which can differ from the place people call Tower Hamlets.
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 Tower Hamlets. 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.
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.