Crime and Safety in Leamouth, Tower Hamlets
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Leamouth are violence and sexual offences, with 6 offences during 2022, giving a crime rate of 1.8. This is 79% lower than 2021's figure of 28 offences and a difference of 7.97 from 2021's crime rate of 10. Leamouth's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 0 offences recorded in 2022, a decrease of 0% from 2021's figure of 1 crime.
Leamouth 2026 Crime Scorecard
96% lower, borough crime rate
London
97% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of June 2022, the crime rate in Tower Hamlets is 96% lower than London and 97% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Tower Hamlets Crime Rate Over Time
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Leamouth Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Leamouth represent the time frame between January 2016 and June 2022. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Leamouth's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Leamouth up to June 2022, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Leamouth's 82 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending June 2022 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Leamouth • 12 Months Ending June 2022
The typical five-minute walk within Leamouth has a crime risk score of 409. This is based on analysis of 82 nearby areas within Leamouth, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Leamouth's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Leamouth, crime risk scores are typically around 409, while in Tower Hamlets they are average 651.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 537 (731 for Tower Hamlets), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 662 (Tower Hamlets 783).
Trends in Crime Risk
Leamouth
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 12% in Leamouth's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Leamouth's crime risk score is up by 56%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, Leamouth's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 0.51%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Leamouth
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Leamouth • 12 Months Ending June 2022
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Possession of Weapons offences have a crime rate of 0.35 reports per 1,000 people in Leamouth, which is 7.00 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 1 crime report logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending June 2022.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 1 report of Robbery in Leamouth, resulting in a crime rate of 0.35 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 5.00.
The crime rate for Drugs is 1.59 times the national average at 0.70 reports per 1,000. This is from 2 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Leamouth
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Leamouth
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
No significant decreases identified.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Leamouth • 12 Months Ending June 2022
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 8 | 2.68 | 0.24 | 11,045 | 20.37 | 1.44 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 1 | 0.35 | 3.18 | 998 | 1.83 | 2.51 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 3 | 1.05 | 1.11 | 2,348 | 4.32 | 1.38 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 2 | 0.66 | 0.55 | 2,038 | 3.75 | 0.60 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 2 | 0.70 | 1.59 | 2,887 | 5.33 | 1.72 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 2 | 0.70 | 2.69 | 487 | 0.88 | 0.48 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 7 | 2.33 | 0.74 | 3,938 | 7.25 | 1.27 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 1 | 0.35 | 7.00 | 276 | 0.50 | 0.59 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 3 | 1.05 | 0.54 | 2,774 | 5.10 | 0.88 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.35 | 5.00 | 1,254 | 2.30 | 1.95 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | - | - | - | 3,417 | 6.30 | 0.88 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | - | - | - | 2,766 | 5.10 | 3.29 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 1 | 0.31 | 0.66 | 2,596 | 4.78 | 1.11 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 26 | 8.60 | 0.28 | 11,709 | 21.59 | 0.71 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2023 | 7 | 2.16 | 0.36 | 32,620 | 60.85 | 0.77 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 49 | 16.45 | 0.42 | 32,196 | 60.98 | 0.79 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 66 | 27.16 | 0.70 | 30,170 | 57.64 | 0.84 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 45 | 22.58 | 0.80 | 31,037 | 59.21 | 0.80 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 47 | 26.77 | 0.81 | 33,866 | 64.76 | 0.85 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 16 | 14.36 | 1.42 | 31,349 | 60.39 | 0.85 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 11 | 12.60 | 1.68 | 30,223 | 59.43 | 0.93 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4.92 | 1.73 | 8,887 | 17.61 | 0.92 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Leamouth Compared to Other Tower Hamlets Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Jun 2022
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Canary Wharf | 1,539 | 28.47 | 1218% more dangerous |
| Blackwall | 965 | 61.47 | 2746% more dangerous |
| Poplar | 3,494 | 103.11 | 4674% more dangerous |
| Bromley-by-Bow | 1,500 | 104.91 | 4757% more dangerous |
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