Bow East
WardNorth Tower Hamlets. About 20,814 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 17% of people in Bow East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bow East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bow East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bow East at a rate of 133.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 144.2 per 1,000 people across Tower Hamlets.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 250 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bow East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (651), anti-social behaviour (571) and other crime (527).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Tower Hamlets
These figures are published for the whole of Tower Hamlets, not for each ward, so they describe all of Tower Hamlets and not Bow East alone. See Tower Hamlets
Bow East in brief
Bow East had 19,524 usual residents at the census.
About 17% of people in Bow East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bow East, 90.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bow East, 6.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.