Whitechapel
WardWest Tower Hamlets. About 21,547 people in 1.0 square kilometre.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Whitechapel live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitechapel compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whitechapel safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whitechapel at a rate of 151.7 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, 311 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whitechapel.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (826), violence and sexual offences (684) and other crime (591).
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 Whitechapel alone. See Tower Hamlets
Whitechapel in brief
Whitechapel had 18,837 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Whitechapel live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitechapel, 86.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Whitechapel, 5.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.