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London borough · E09000031

Waltham Forest

278,433 residents at Census 2021 across 146 LSOAs and 22 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents278,433Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents81.0Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months-5.9%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year12.48London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:50London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year1.92DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions364DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£522,743UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change+2.5%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£1,765ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£545,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

22,550 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 23,962 in the previous 12 months (-5.9%). Rate: 81.0 per 1,000 residents, from 146 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Waltham Forest, 24 months: 1977, 2276, 2209, 1945, 1881, 1768, 2071, 2000, 2106, 1950, 2013, 1766, 1866, 1861, 1921, 1844, 1876, 1746, 1886, 1827, 1947, 2023, 1970, 1783
Category (12 months)Offences
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON6,710
THEFT6,201
VEHICLE OFFENCES2,535
DRUG OFFENCES1,603
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE1,552
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES1,400
BURGLARY1,302
ROBBERY724
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY321
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS202

Fire brigade incidents and response

17,380 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 2,886 fires of which 683 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:50, 90th percentile 8:10 (min:sec, 16,750 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Waltham Forest: 1226, 3355, 3194, 3478, 3719, 2408
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm8,214
Special Service6,275
Fire2,886
NULL5

Road collisions

2,668 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 13 fatal, 351 serious and 2,304 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £522,743, +2.5% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Waltham Forest, trailing year: 515406, 529130, 532959, 535830, 528718, 523942, 525429, 529911, 526831, 523730, 522717, 522743

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £1,765 across the whole private rental stock, +1.1% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £1,450 from 1,300 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

How the rent figures work

Wards in Waltham Forest

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 Waltham Forest · JSON for all boroughs · MCP tool get_borough_profile("Waltham Forest") · npx civicdata borough "Waltham Forest"

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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