E8 9

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Tower Hamlets

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Tower Hamlets Council · Aspire (directly-elected mayor) 33/45 seats · 73% · OCD 2026

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How safe is it? This postcode sector

We don’t hold a separate crime rate for E8 9, so this is the wider Tower Hamlets district: 14.7 per 1,000 residents a month — above the 9.7 average across districts AcreRight covers. The trend and category mix here are E8 9’s own.

Crime rate

Monthly recorded crimes across the whole district

District crime rate14.7 / 1,000 / mo

Average across AcreRight-covered districts9.7

Per-1,000 rate is the wider Tower Hamlets district — we don’t hold a separate population-based rate for E8 9 · police.uk / ONS

By category, 12 months from Tower Hamlets

Violence and sexual offences

8,679

Anti-social behaviour

8,293

Other theft

2,767

Shoplifting

2,491

Drugs

2,157

Public order

2,144

Recorded crimes by category across the whole Tower Hamlets district, last 12 months · police.uk / Home Office

Where crime clusters

On or near	Crimes
Shopping Area	469
Supermarket	361
Parking Area	308
Canary Wharf	235
Further/Higher Educational Building	193

Busiest anonymised "on or near" markers over the last 6 months — click a row to centre the crime map there · retail-heavy spots naturally rank high (shoplifting concentrates where the shops are) · police.uk

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