Police-recorded · Tower Hamlets · Metropolitan Police Service
Theft from the person in Tower Hamlets
12 months to June 2026
8.4per 1,000 residents
Police recorded 2,815 theft from the person offences in Tower Hamlets in the 12 months to June 2026, down 7.2% (218) on the previous 12 months. That is 8.4 per 1,000 residents against 1.7 for England and Wales.
Home Office · data.police.uk
street-level crime archive, category “Theft from the person”
local authority via LSOA lookup
population: ONS mid-2025 estimate, 334,240
Monthly, May 2013 to June 2026
Offences recorded in this category each month, from the street-level archivePublished valueProvisional or revisedLatestShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value
Each year since 2011
Year to
Offences
Per 1,000
Population year
June 2011
0 (partial)
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June 2012
6,530
24.9
2012
June 2013
8,068
29.8
2013
June 2014
7,512
27.1
2014
June 2015
6,961
24.6
2015
June 2016
7,326
25.3
2016
June 2017
8,593
29.3
2017
June 2018
8,250
27.5
2018
June 2019
9,424
30.9
2019
June 2020
6,914
22.5
2020
June 2021
7,088
22.7
2021
June 2022
8,041
24.5
2022
June 2023
8,929
26.7
2023
June 2024
10,857
32.3
2024
June 2025
10,547
31.6
2025
June 2026
11,219
33.6
2025
What this measures
Theft of property directly from a person without force, such as pickpocketing.
Police-recorded crime counts offences reported to and recorded by the police. It is affected by whether people report crime and by changes in police recording practice, so it does not measure all crime that happens. The Crime Survey for England and Wales is the better guide to long-term trends in the crimes it covers. Police recorded crime is not designated as National Statistics.
A higher recorded rate does not mean an area is more dangerous.