Leyton
WardSouth Waltham Forest. About 13,229 people in 2.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 98% of people in Leyton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leyton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Leyton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Leyton at a rate of 123.5 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, 117 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Leyton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (469), violence and sexual offences (368) and other crime (260).
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 Leyton alone. See Waltham Forest
Leyton in brief
Leyton had 13,115 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Leyton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leyton, 91.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Leyton, 8.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.