Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in E2 8
The E2 8 postcode sector, in the E (East London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,462 street-crime records for E2 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 11.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 162.6 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,462
Share of E2
18.6%
Year-on-year
+11.9%
E2 8 holds 18.6% of the 7,846 records assigned to E2 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
120
October 2025
112
November 2025
117
December 2025
109
January 2026
87
February 2026
80
March 2026
89
April 2026
92
May 2026
148
June 2026
155
July 2026
144
August 2026
209
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.
E2 8
162.6
Metropolitan Police
127.5
1,462 records and 8,992 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.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Metropolitan Police.
Category
E2 8
E2
Force
Violence and sexual offences
16.0%
23.1%
25.3%
Anti-social behaviour
15.9%
22.4%
20.9%
Shoplifting
14.1%
10.7%
8.4%
Theft from the person
10.5%
5.9%
6.4%
Other theft
7.9%
7.2%
8.8%
Bicycle theft
7.3%
3.9%
1.3%
Burglary
6.8%
5.0%
4.2%
Drugs
6.0%
5.2%
4.3%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for E2 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,335
2022
1,303
2023
1,395
2024
1,473
2025
1,288
2026 (part year)
1,004
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 8,992 Census 2021 residents of E2 8.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 16.5% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
17%2
34%3
34%4
16%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
0%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
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