Limehouse
WardSouth east Tower Hamlets. About 6,768 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Limehouse live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Limehouse compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Limehouse safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Limehouse at a rate of 147.5 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, 104 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Limehouse.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (345), violence and sexual offences (205) and other crime (160).
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 Limehouse alone. See Tower Hamlets
Limehouse in brief
Limehouse had 6,554 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Limehouse live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Limehouse, 88.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Limehouse, 3.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.