Gants Hill is about as safe as the rest of Redbridge, with a crime rate a little above the borough's. Violence makes up a smaller share of crime here than it does nationally. Theft straight from someone's pocket or hand makes up a larger one. Most of the other categories look much like they do anywhere else. Phones and wallets are more at risk here than their owners.
The Metropolitan Police's published figures put Gants Hill at about 104 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, roughly 5% above the Redbridge average. That covers 5,294 recorded crimes over the twelve months. For a place of this density, those are ordinary numbers.
The published rate across the London Borough of Redbridge as a whole is about 100 crimes per 1,000 residents, and Gants Hill comes in at about 104. Few people living here would notice a gap that size. It does mean the area is slightly worse than the borough average.
Gants Hill is built tightly, at about 11,500 people per square kilometre on average across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment is about 4%, and about 15% of households are overcrowded on the census measure. That describes busy streets, mostly in work, with more people per house than the room count allows for. Those figures describe the place. They do not explain its crime rate.
Violence and sexual offences are the largest category, at about 28% of recorded crime, below the share of about 35% across England and Wales. That category also includes common assault without injury, which is why it tops the list almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour makes up about 18% here against 16% nationally, shoplifting 9% against 8%, and other theft 8% against 7%. All of those are close to the national mix. Vehicle crime is a bit higher, at about 7% against 5%. The one category well out of line is theft from the person, about 7% of crime here against 2% nationally. The Central line platform and the crossings around the roundabout are busy places to stand looking at a phone. Pull up the police's street-level crime map for the specific road before committing, because a figure for the whole suburb can hide which end of it the thefts happen in.
After a crime is reported, the Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces over the year to May 2026. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Both are figures for the whole force, not for Gants Hill, and they answer whether someone gets caught, which is a different question from whether a crime happens. A stolen phone on a busy platform is often the second kind of case.
Gants Hill is middling on safety, close enough to its borough that nobody should move here or away from here because of it. Residents should still keep the phone in an inside pocket.