Photo: Robert Lamb · CC BY-SA 2.0Redbridge records theft from the person at 5.5 times the rate of a typical town its size
Across all the graded crimes, Redbridge lands on C− (#11 of 33 in London): more crime per resident than 77% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. It has more violent crime than 70% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 88%. Behind the grade sit 31.1 violent and sexual offences and 17.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Redbridge
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% more violent crime per resident in Redbridge than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 13% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 40 UK towns and cities of 217,000 to 418,000 people, Redbridge has the 7th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Brighton and Hove, Hillingdon and Enfield, higher than Bromley, Wandsworth and Havering. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C− for Redbridge
A firm grade. Built on 45,068 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Redbridge against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Redbridge runs highest on theft from the person (3.6 per 1,000 against 0.7), vehicle crime (8.5 per 1,000 against 4.9) and robbery (2.3 per 1,000 against 1.4). Other crime and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 9,415 | 30.4 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 5,931 | 19.2 | 17.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 2,644 | 8.5 | 4.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2,501 | 8.1 | 10.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 2,005 | 6.5 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 1,559 | 5 | 7.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1,112 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1,112 | 3.6 | 3.8 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1,111 | 3.6 | 0.7 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 983 | 3.2 | 7.5 |
| Robbery | Violent | 708 | 2.3 | 1.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 387 | 1.3 | 2.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 153 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 149 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Police in Redbridge identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 84% of Redbridge’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 41% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (43% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 2% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 15,345 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Monkhams, South Woodford and Wanstead Park; highest in Seven Kings
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monkhams | 9,486 | 14 | 15.8 | |
| South Woodford | 12,842 | 12.9 | 17.8 | |
| Wanstead Park | 7,300 | 14 | 16.9 | |
| Mayfield | 16,292 | 18 | 13.8 | |
| Bridge | 13,384 | 18.8 | 15.5 | |
| Newbury | 14,464 | 22.7 | 11.7 | |
| Clayhall | 14,425 | 21.5 | 15.3 | |
| Barkingside | 15,326 | 22.6 | 15.4 | |
| Aldborough | 15,464 | 25.7 | 15 | |
| Wanstead Village | 12,763 | 19.9 | 20.8 | |
| Fairlop | 14,719 | 26.9 | 13.9 | |
| Chadwell | 16,528 | 28.1 | 12.7 | |
| Fullwell | 15,404 | 26.5 | 15.5 | |
| Hainault | 15,698 | 28.2 | 15.1 | |
| Valentines | 15,201 | 29.7 | 14.3 | |
| Churchfields | 15,712 | 24.2 | 23.5 | |
| Goodmayes | 15,261 | 32.2 | 20.4 | |
| Cranbrook | 13,245 | 32.8 | 20.2 | |
| Clementswood | 13,504 | 47.7 | 20.7 | |
| Loxford | 15,126 | 49.7 | 22.5 | |
| Ilford Town | 12,323 | 71.4 | 28.9 | |
| Seven Kings | 15,042 | 81.7 | 22.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 4,206 | 63% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 3,283 | 36% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 2,486 | 58% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 2,385 | 41% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 2,018 | 72% violent |
| College and university buildings | 1,179 | 32% violent |
| Police stations | 1,077 | 55% anti-social behaviour |
| Hospitals | 529 | 54% violent |
| Nightclubs | 353 | 30% anti-social behaviour |
| Conference and exhibition centres | 166 | 43% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Seven Kings records 2.9× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Redbridge. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Redbridge. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Redbridge’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Towns its size: Redbridge comes 7th of 40
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrow London | 260,534 | 23.3 | 15.4 | 16 | C+ |
| 2 | Bexley London | 246,074 | 26.1 | 17.5 | 14.3 | C |
| 3 | Barnet London | 388,572 | 25.3 | 21 | 18.8 | C |
| 4 | Bromley London | 325,469 | 25.7 | 20.8 | 17.4 | C |
| 5 | Wandsworth London | 326,725 | 27.7 | 18.9 | 23 | C |
| 6 | Havering London | 259,401 | 29 | 18.1 | 17.7 | C |
| 7 | Redbridge London | 309,509 | 31.1 | 17.7 | 18.7 | C− |
| 8 | Waltham Forest London | 278,129 | 28.5 | 21 | 23.4 | C− |
| 9 | Luton Bedfordshire | 233,524 | 36.7 | 17.7 | 17.5 | C− |
| 10 | Ealing London | 367,271 | 33.6 | 22.2 | 20.8 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 12 | Hillingdon London | 307,089 | 33.4 | 23 | 23.6 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 40 | Bradford West Yorkshire | 333,968 | 72.2 | 28.3 | 19.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Redbridge, and others in London.
Violent crime up 11% in a year, while towns its size held steady
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +11% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -13% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +3% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -3% (towns its size -2%).
How Redbridge’s neighbourhoods rank in England
19% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 10% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Redbridge’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Crime in Redbridge per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 15 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 19 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
17 people died in collisions on Redbridge’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 2,847 collisions with injuries inside Redbridge in five years, in which 17 people died (9 were pedestrians). 416 people were killed or seriously injured: 161 on foot and 51 on a bicycle.
That is 1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (1.1, 210 towns).
Counting serious injuries too, Redbridge had 26.9 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 39% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Redbridge’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Redbridge
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redbridge | 309,509 | 31.1 | 17.7 | C− |
| Chigwell | 12,251 | 24.1 | 17.8 | C |
| Barking and Dagenham | 218,236 | 40.5 | 20 | D |
| Chigwell Row | 2,115 | 30.1 | 15.8 | C |
| Buckhurst Hill | 11,749 | 22.3 | 22.6 | C |
| Newham | 351,065 | 38.9 | 23 | D |
| Waltham Forest | 278,129 | 28.5 | 21 | C− |
| Loughton | 33,338 | 30.2 | 17.1 | C |
Redbridge records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Chigwell, 2.4 miles away, records 24.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Redbridge’s 31.1.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 529 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Redbridge’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Redbridge sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Redbridge
Is Redbridge safe?
Police recorded 31.1 violent and sexual offences and 17.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Redbridge’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 23% of UK towns. Among 40 UK towns of 217,000 to 418,000 people, Redbridge is 7th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Redbridge?
By council ward, Monkhams, South Woodford and Wanstead Park record the least violent and household crime per resident: 14, 12.9 and 14 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 81.7 in Seven Kings.
Is crime going up in Redbridge?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 13%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Redbridge town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 353 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 28% of them violent, and Seven Kings ward records 81.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in July and was lowest in February.
What is the most common crime in Redbridge?
Violence & sexual offences: 9,415 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (2,644) and shoplifting (2,501), with 5,931 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Redbridge compare with Newham?
Newham records 38.9 violent and sexual offences and 23 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Redbridge’s 31.1 and 17.7, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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