Tower Hamlets

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• Today: 25° / 18° · 24% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 15° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:19

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London Bloomsbury, United Kingdom

2188 reported · July 2026▼ 11% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences481
• Anti-social behaviour377
• Other theft302
• Theft from the person244

369 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Whitechapel · Metropolitan

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

901 reported road collisions (2024)

149 killed or seriously injured · 1,014 casualties · 29 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 416 rated 4–5 ★ (335 top)
• 23 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Tower Gateway (0.3 km)
• 70 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£456,898 average▼ 13.1% YoY

Across Tower Hamlets · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£2,439 average monthly rent▲ 3% YoY

• 1 bed £1,981
• 2 bed £2,404
• 3 bed £2,733

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

7.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.5 times median annual pay (9.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (3.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (3.8 km)

78 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Shell Recharge/Ubitricity (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres22
• Gyms43
• Sports pitches103
• Playgrounds80

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

310,305 residents in Tower Hamlets · 15,703/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 76%
• 65+: 6%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 27 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£1,838 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 149,820)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

128 schools · 46,272 pupils

66 primary · 17 secondary · 45 other

Ofsted: 37 of 39 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (95%)

92inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tower Hamlets

237 CQC-registered services

• Care homes10
• GP practices58
• Dentists62
• Homecare agencies76
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Tower Hamlets

• Not in the Green Belt
• 1,010 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

199 applications decided

88.4% granted · 176 granted, 23 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Rushanara Ali

Labour

Bethnal Green and Stepney

Source: UK Parliament

Aspire majority · directly-elected mayor

• Lab 5
• Con 1
• LD 1
• Grn 5
• Oth 33

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools47
• GPs & clinics70
• Pharmacies19
• Supermarkets23
• Parks & greens270
• Restaurants & cafés1162

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

19,530 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

6,712 jobs advertised · £43,771 avg

e.g. Gopuff Delivery Drivers or Riders - Work when you want!, Gopuff Delivery Riders - Stratford, Gopuff Delivery Riders - Choose when you work!

Source: Adzuna

£997 median full-time weekly pay

6.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,568 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

75% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 189,104 certificates

6.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

36% low-carbon electricity

Gas 53% · Nuclear 17% · Imports 11% · Wind 11%

224 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for London · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.4 yrs women · 79.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59.2 women · 59.5 men

56% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.3
• Happiness yesterday6.9
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bethnal Green and Stepney:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership540 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s279 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership218 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office138 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Introduce weekend access to death certification for burials126 local signatures · 9,621 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Brown Bear, Whitechapel · 0.0 km

  The Brown Bear is a pub at 139 Leman Street, Whitechapel, London E1.

• Garrick Theatre (Leman St) · 0.1 km

  The Garrick Theatre, also known as Garrick's Subscription, was a small theatre located in Leman St, Whitechapel. The theatre opened in 1831, and closed in about 1881. The theatre was named for the actor, David Garr…

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  Leman Street railway station · 0.1 km

  Leman Street was a railway station in Whitechapel, East London. It was on London and Blackwall Railway (LBR) between Fenchurch Street and Shadwell stations. It was opened on 1 June 1877, serving the two local lines of…

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  Jack the Ripper Museum · 0.1 km

  The Jack the Ripper Museum is a museum and tourist attraction that opened in August 2015 in Cable Street, London. It recreates the East End of London setting in which the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders took place in…

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  Chamber Street · 0.1 km

  Chamber Street, once known as Chambers Street, is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. It runs between Mansell Street in the west and Leman Street in the east, parallel with Prescot Street to the Nor…

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  Prescot Street · 0.1 km

  Prescot Street is a street in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It runs between Goodman's Yard and Mansell Street in the west and Leman Street in the east.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)