Crime and Safety in Millwall, Tower Hamlets
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Millwall are violence and sexual offences, with 756 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 8. This is 7% higher than 2025's figure of 706 offences and a difference of 0.56 from 2025's crime rate of 8. Millwall's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 9 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 50% from 2025's figure of 6 crimes.
Millwall 2026 Crime Scorecard
70% lower, borough crime rate
London
71% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Tower Hamlets is 70% lower than London and 71% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Tower Hamlets Crime Rate Over Time
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Millwall Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Millwall 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 Millwall's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Millwall up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Millwall's 913 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
Millwall • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Millwall has a crime risk score of 236. This is based on analysis of 913 nearby areas within Millwall, 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 Millwall's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Millwall, crime risk scores are typically around 236, while in Tower Hamlets they are average 651.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 298 (731 for Tower Hamlets), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 402 (Tower Hamlets 783).
Trends in Crime Risk
Millwall
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.
No trend could be found in Millwall's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Millwall's crime risk score is up by 37%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Over the last year, Millwall's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 18%, 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
Millwall
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
Millwall • 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.
Drugs offences have a crime rate of 2.39 reports per 1,000 people in Millwall, which is 0.77 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 223 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 183 reports of Vehicle Crime in Millwall, resulting in a crime rate of 1.96 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 0.46.
The crime rate for Burglary is 0.44 times the national average at 1.37 reports per 1,000. This is from 129 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Millwall
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.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.92 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 0.23 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 300% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.27 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.26 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 3.8% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.25 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.30 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 17% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Millwall
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.14 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 0.29 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 52% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.10 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.19 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 47% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.30 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 0.67 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 55% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Millwall • 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 | 668 | 7.14 | 0.51 | 11,045 | 20.37 | 1.44 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 24 | 0.24 | 0.33 | 998 | 1.83 | 2.51 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 129 | 1.37 | 0.44 | 2,348 | 4.32 | 1.38 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 120 | 1.28 | 0.20 | 2,038 | 3.75 | 0.60 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 223 | 2.39 | 0.77 | 2,887 | 5.33 | 1.72 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 19 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 487 | 0.88 | 0.48 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 164 | 1.76 | 0.31 | 3,938 | 7.25 | 1.27 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 9 | 0.09 | 0.18 | 276 | 0.50 | 0.59 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 133 | 1.45 | 0.25 | 2,774 | 5.10 | 0.88 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 39 | 0.39 | 0.33 | 1,254 | 2.30 | 1.95 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 81 | 0.85 | 0.12 | 3,417 | 6.30 | 0.88 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 49 | 0.50 | 0.32 | 2,766 | 5.10 | 3.29 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 183 | 1.96 | 0.46 | 2,596 | 4.78 | 1.11 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 756 | 8.09 | 0.27 | 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 | 1,929 | 20.56 | 0.29 | 37,488 | 69.03 | 0.96 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,822 | 19.45 | 0.27 | 35,452 | 65.28 | 0.88 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,901 | 20.80 | 0.28 | 35,635 | 66.28 | 0.88 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,481 | 16.03 | 0.21 | 32,620 | 60.85 | 0.77 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,426 | 15.52 | 0.22 | 32,196 | 60.98 | 0.79 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,212 | 14.19 | 0.22 | 30,170 | 57.64 | 0.84 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,174 | 13.57 | 0.20 | 31,037 | 59.21 | 0.80 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,225 | 13.81 | 0.19 | 33,866 | 64.76 | 0.85 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,247 | 13.10 | 0.20 | 31,349 | 60.39 | 0.85 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 1,179 | 12.19 | 0.20 | 30,223 | 59.43 | 0.93 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 329 | 3.39 | 0.18 | 8,887 | 17.61 | 0.92 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Millwall Compared to Other Tower Hamlets Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Canary Wharf | 1,539 | 28.47 | 38% more dangerous |
| Cubitt Town | 1,426 | 55.43 | 170% more dangerous |
| Blackwall | 965 | 61.47 | 199% more dangerous |
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