Grove Green
WardSouth Waltham Forest. About 14,551 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 72% of people in Grove Green live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Grove Green compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Grove Green safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Grove Green at a rate of 84.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 103.8 per 1,000 people across Waltham Forest.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 100 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Grove Green.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (338), anti-social behaviour (283) and other crime (232).
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 Waltham Forest
These figures are published for the whole of Waltham Forest, not for each ward, so they describe all of Waltham Forest and not Grove Green alone. See Waltham Forest
Grove Green in brief
Grove Green had 14,742 usual residents at the census.
About 72% of people in Grove Green live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Grove Green, 98.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Grove Green, 5.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.