Spitalfields & Banglatown
WardWest Tower Hamlets. About 14,308 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Spitalfields & Banglatown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Spitalfields & Banglatown compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Spitalfields & Banglatown safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Spitalfields & Banglatown at a rate of 247.5 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, 283 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Spitalfields & Banglatown.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were other crime (755), anti-social behaviour (698) and violence and sexual offences (639).
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 Spitalfields & Banglatown alone. See Tower Hamlets
Spitalfields & Banglatown in brief
Spitalfields & Banglatown had 13,337 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Spitalfields & Banglatown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Spitalfields & Banglatown, 65.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Spitalfields & Banglatown, 7.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.