Manor Park is one of the safer parts of Newham, with recorded crime well below the borough's rate. Recorded crime per head is about four tenths lower than the borough's. Violence makes up a smaller share of crime here than it does nationally. Anti-social behaviour, car crime and pickpocketing make up a larger one. Mostly, the place is hard on property and patience, and much less so on people.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 4,419 crimes in Manor Park in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 89 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 39% below the average for Newham. The published rate uses its own population base, so it won't match the result of dividing the count by the number of people you think live here. Use the published rate.
Across Newham as a whole, the comparable rate over the same year was about 146 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Manor Park's 89. The district sits inside one of London's busier boroughs, and for crime it does better than most of the borough around it.
The numbers come from a very crowded place. The census puts Manor Park at about 16,000 people per square kilometre. About 5% of residents are unemployed and about a quarter of homes are overcrowded. Those are facts about how people live here, and nothing in them shows that any one of them drives the crime figures. That so many people live this close together and still record a lower rate than the borough says something about how Manor Park works.
The mix is more useful than the total. Violence and sexual offences are the largest category, at about 28% of reports, but they are below the national share of 35%. That category also covers common assault where nobody was injured. Anti-social behaviour makes up about 23% here, against 16% nationally. Vehicle crime is about 10% against 5%, and theft from the person about 5% against 2%. Other theft, at about 7%, is close to the national figure, and public order offences, at about 5%, are under the 7% seen nationally. Look up the specific street on the police's own online crime map for the last year as well, because the area-wide mix won't tell you what happens at one particular junction.
Getting a crime solved is a separate question from how safe the area is, and Manor Park does worse on it. Charging decisions are made across the whole Metropolitan Police, and the force charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 33rd of 42 forces in England and Wales. About 53% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures for all of London, not a Manor Park result, but they mean many victims here report a crime mainly to get a crime number for the insurance claim.
Safety is one of Manor Park's real strengths. It is crowded and gets its share of nuisance, but violence is below the national share and recorded crime is well below the borough's rate.