Crime and Safety in Tower Hill, Tower Hamlets
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Tower Hill is other theft, with 113 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 29. This is 6% higher than 2025's figure of 107 offences and a difference of 2.29 from 2025's crime rate of 26. Tower Hill's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 1 offence recorded in 2026, a decrease of 67% from 2025's figure of 3 crimes.
Tower Hill 2026 Crime Scorecard
16% higher, borough crime rate
London
11% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Tower Hamlets is 16% higher than London and 11% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Tower Hamlets Crime Rate Over Time
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Tower Hill Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Tower Hill 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 Tower Hill's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Tower Hill up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Tower Hill's 44 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
Tower Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Tower Hill has a crime risk score of 169. This is based on analysis of 44 nearby areas within Tower Hill, 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 Tower Hill's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Tower Hill, crime risk scores are typically around 169, while in Tower Hamlets they are average 651.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 266 (731 for Tower Hamlets), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 382 (Tower Hamlets 783).
Trends in Crime Risk
Tower Hill
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 Tower Hill'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 Tower Hill's crime risk score is up by 64%. 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, Tower Hill's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 2.3%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Tower Hill
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
Tower Hill • 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 20 reports per 1,000 people in Tower Hill, which is 13 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 79 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 1 report of Possession of Weapons in Tower Hill, resulting in a crime rate of 0.25 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.57.
The crime rate for Robbery is 3.49 times the national average at 3.07 reports per 1,000. This is from 12 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Tower Hill
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.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.25 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.87 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 159% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.52 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.41 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Tower Hill
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.35 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.24 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 90% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Tower Hill • 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 | 26 | 6.63 | 0.51 | 11,045 | 20.37 | 1.44 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 1 | 0.25 | 3.57 | 998 | 1.83 | 2.51 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 17 | 4.26 | 2.02 | 2,348 | 4.32 | 1.38 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 12 | 2.98 | 0.70 | 2,038 | 3.75 | 0.60 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 15 | 3.79 | 2.13 | 2,887 | 5.33 | 1.72 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 1 | 0.25 | 1.67 | 487 | 0.88 | 0.48 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 113 | 28.67 | 5.04 | 3,938 | 7.25 | 1.27 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 1 | 0.25 | 3.57 | 276 | 0.50 | 0.59 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 19 | 4.76 | 1.18 | 2,774 | 5.10 | 0.88 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 12 | 3.07 | 3.49 | 1,254 | 2.30 | 1.95 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 1 | 0.25 | 0.40 | 3,417 | 6.30 | 0.88 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 79 | 19.89 | 13 | 2,766 | 5.10 | 3.29 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 3 | 0.77 | 0.69 | 2,596 | 4.78 | 1.11 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 43 | 10.76 | 0.38 | 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 | 317 | 79.95 | 1.59 | 37,488 | 69.03 | 0.96 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 304 | 75.67 | 1.49 | 35,452 | 65.28 | 0.88 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 308 | 78.78 | 1.50 | 35,635 | 66.28 | 0.88 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 198 | 48.57 | 0.97 | 32,620 | 60.85 | 0.77 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 106 | 27.11 | 0.66 | 32,196 | 60.98 | 0.79 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 60 | 15.95 | 0.67 | 30,170 | 57.64 | 0.84 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 266 | 69.57 | 1.61 | 31,037 | 59.21 | 0.80 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 333 | 80.21 | 1.89 | 33,866 | 64.76 | 0.85 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 172 | 35.67 | 1.07 | 31,349 | 60.39 | 0.85 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 160 | 31.99 | 1.02 | 30,223 | 59.43 | 0.93 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 39 | 7.87 | 1.15 | 8,887 | 17.61 | 0.92 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Crime in Tower Hamlets