Crime and Safety in Mile End, Tower Hamlets
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Mile End are violence and sexual offences, with 463 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 57. This is 7% lower than 2025's figure of 497 offences and a difference of 4.18 from 2025's crime rate of 61. Mile End's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 6 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 6 crimes.
Mile End 2026 Crime Scorecard
106% higher, borough crime rate
London
97% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Tower Hamlets is 106% higher than London and 97% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Tower Hamlets Crime Rate Over Time
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Mile End Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Mile End represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Mile End's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Mile End up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Mile End's 77 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 April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Mile End • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Mile End has a crime risk score of 688. This is based on analysis of 77 nearby areas within Mile End, 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 Mile End's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Mile End, crime risk scores are typically around 688, while in Tower Hamlets they are average 651.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 754 (731 for Tower Hamlets), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 809 (Tower Hamlets 783).
Trends in Crime Risk
Mile End
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 13% in Mile End'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 Mile End's crime risk score is up by 10%. 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, Mile End's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 6%, 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
Mile End
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
Mile End • 12 Months Ending April 2026
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.
Theft From the Person offences have a crime rate of 10 reports per 1,000 people in Mile End, which is 6.73 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 85 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 47 reports of Robbery in Mile End, resulting in a crime rate of 5.77 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 4.89.
The crime rate for Drugs is 3.73 times the national average at 12 reports per 1,000. This is from 94 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Mile End
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.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.29 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.58 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 295% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.61 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 1.81 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 11% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.46 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.78 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 41% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Mile End
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.71 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 3.43 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 50% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Mile End • 12 Months Ending April 2026
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 | 142 | 17.40 | 1.23 | 11,045 | 20.37 | 1.44 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 29 | 3.57 | 5.41 | 998 | 1.83 | 2.51 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 74 | 9.07 | 2.90 | 2,348 | 4.32 | 1.38 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 68 | 8.34 | 1.33 | 2,038 | 3.75 | 0.60 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 94 | 11.54 | 3.73 | 2,887 | 5.33 | 1.72 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 11 | 1.35 | 1.09 | 487 | 0.88 | 0.48 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 97 | 11.91 | 2.09 | 3,938 | 7.25 | 1.27 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 6 | 0.73 | 2.03 | 276 | 0.50 | 0.59 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 88 | 10.78 | 1.86 | 2,774 | 5.10 | 0.88 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 47 | 5.77 | 4.89 | 1,254 | 2.30 | 1.95 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 54 | 6.64 | 1.01 | 3,417 | 6.30 | 0.88 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 85 | 10.43 | 6.73 | 2,766 | 5.10 | 3.29 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 43 | 5.28 | 1.23 | 2,596 | 4.78 | 1.11 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 463 | 56.74 | 1.87 | 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 |
| 2026 | 1,159 | 142.15 | 2.02 | 37,488 | 69.03 | 0.96 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,152 | 141.69 | 1.97 | 35,452 | 65.28 | 0.88 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,222 | 149.26 | 2.06 | 35,635 | 66.28 | 0.88 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,152 | 140.96 | 1.85 | 32,620 | 60.85 | 0.77 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,014 | 129.89 | 1.79 | 32,196 | 60.98 | 0.79 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 975 | 123.78 | 1.92 | 30,170 | 57.64 | 0.84 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,158 | 147.14 | 2.06 | 31,037 | 59.21 | 0.80 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,234 | 158.04 | 2.16 | 33,866 | 64.76 | 0.85 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,075 | 138.22 | 2.02 | 31,349 | 60.39 | 0.85 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 1,166 | 155.55 | 2.46 | 30,223 | 59.43 | 0.93 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 324 | 43.94 | 2.34 | 8,887 | 17.61 | 0.92 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Mile End Compared to Other Tower Hamlets Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Bow | 2,301 | 77.86 | 45% safer |
| Stepney | 2,246 | 79.33 | 44% safer |
| Globe Town | 1,135 | 80.35 | 43% safer |
| Bow Common | 2,618 | 92.75 | 35% safer |
| Limehouse | 1,369 | 97.00 | 32% safer |
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