Which east London borough had the most crime in August 2025?

East London as a whole saw a 9.6 per cent decrease in reported crime from 14,922 offences in July to 13,484 in August.

Only one of the six boroughs experienced more crime in August than July.

Newham had the highest crime count with 3,235 - down by 11.6pc from July's total.

Theft was the most common criminal offence in Newham last month with 1,039 reports whilst violence against the person was reported 856 times and vehicle offences reported 326 times.

All three of the leading crime types had lower totals than in July.

Despite this, robbery and public order offences saw fractional increases.

Tower Hamlets had the next highest crime count in August with 3,207 - down by 6.6pc from July.

Theft was the leading crime type here with 1,003 counts whilst violence against the person followed with 900 reports and public order offences with 257.

The top two contributing crimes were down from July although public order offences saw a marginal rise.

Burglary and robbery reports also saw increases from July - 23.9pc and 8.4pc respectively.

Next in the August ranking was Redbridge with 1,988 reports.

This was down by 6.8pc from July.

Redbridge's most recurring crimes were violence against the person with 718 reports, theft with 446 reports and vehicle offences with 219 reports - all of these were lower totals than in July.

Other crime types that were lower in August were robbery, burglary, sexual offences and drug offences.

Waltham Forest was next in the ranking with 1,803 counts of reported crime.

This was a 13.6pc decrease from July.

Theft was the most common crime in Waltham Forest with 526 reports whilst violence against the person was next with 478 and vehicle offences with 198.

Both robbery and burglary, with 78 and 101 respective counts, were up from July.

Havering and Barking and Dagenham had similar August crime counts with only 51 reports separating the two.

Havering registered 1,651 reports whilst Barking and Dagenham registered 1,600.

Havering's total was down by 8.9pc from July and Barking and Dagenham's was down by 10.7pc.

Violence against the person was reported 522 times in Havering whilst theft was reported 363 times and vehicle offences reported 157 times - each of these were lower totals than in July.

Barking and Dagenham's top three contributors were also down from July.

The borough saw 591 reports of violence against the person, 266 reports of theft and 147 reports of vehicle offences.

However, reports of possession of weapons and sexual offences saw fractional rises.