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London borough · E09000030

Tower Hamlets

310,323 residents at Census 2021 across 169 LSOAs and 20 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents310,323Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents119.1Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months+5.1%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year18.60London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:28London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year3.23DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions777DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£456,898UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change-13.1%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£2,439ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£470,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

36,973 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 35,188 in the previous 12 months (+5.1%). Rate: 119.1 per 1,000 residents, from 169 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Tower Hamlets, 24 months: 2905, 3104, 3032, 2750, 2717, 2372, 2902, 2867, 3006, 3120, 3286, 3127, 3051, 3105, 3055, 2989, 2650, 2624, 2916, 2975, 3416, 3346, 3435, 3411
Category (12 months)Offences
THEFT11,784
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON10,836
VEHICLE OFFENCES2,692
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES2,599
BURGLARY2,532
DRUG OFFENCES2,338
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE2,079
ROBBERY1,333
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY473
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS307

Fire brigade incidents and response

28,855 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 3,578 fires of which 1,024 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:28, 90th percentile 7:07 (min:sec, 26,284 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Tower Hamlets: 2124, 5445, 5729, 5888, 5957, 3712
Incident groupIncidents
Special Service12,875
False Alarm12,394
Fire3,578
NULL8

Road collisions

5,009 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 19 fatal, 758 serious and 4,232 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £456,898, -13.1% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Tower Hamlets, trailing year: 523041, 516755, 509231, 501810, 492367, 475188, 460842, 458260, 455666, 456210, 450318, 456898

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £2,439 across the whole private rental stock, +3.0% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £1,900 from 1,450 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

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Wards in Tower Hamlets

Current ONS wards with the same factual measures. LSOA-published figures use the documented best-fit assignment; Price Paid sales use each transaction postcode's current ward.

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JSON for Tower Hamlets · JSON for all boroughs · MCP tool get_borough_profile("Tower Hamlets") · npx civicdata borough "Tower Hamlets"

Caveats

  • Borough figures aggregate every loaded record in the borough. Rates per 1,000 residents divide by the sum of Census 2021 LSOA usual-resident populations, which can differ slightly from ONS published borough totals because of statistical disclosure control.
  • Rates use resident population only. Boroughs with large daytime, visitor or commuter populations (for example Westminster, Camden and the City of London) record events involving many people who do not live there.
  • Fire and road-collision periods are the five years ending at the latest loaded data; crime compares the latest 12 source months with the preceding 12. Road collisions are STATS19 personal-injury collisions assigned through the collision LSOA, with a nearest-postcode fallback within 250 metres.
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