Tower Hamlets grants compared to quality of life indicators

Tower Hamlets is not the richest borough in London. Our children have to endure some of the highest rates of poverty in the entire country. As part of the continuing analysis of the manner in which the current Tower Hamlets First administration distributes grants across wards the illustration below shows four key quality of life indicators compared to grant distribution.

These indicators are population, unemployment, child poverty and crime. The orange bar is the highest value of a category.

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You can see the data from which the above illustration was generated below.

Tower Hamlets Grants – quality of life indicators compared to council grants distribution

Ward	Population	Unemployment	Child Poverty	Grants Distribution	Crime Rate
Bethnal Green North	13,683	12.45	50.28	7.54%	133
Bethnal Green South	14,166	10.43	54.48	11.25%	155
Blackwall and Cubitt Town	19,461	6.50	43.1	7.10%	58
Bow East	14,781	9.90	46.04	1.21%	118
Bow West	12,939	8.43	36.86	1.24%	192
Bromley-by-Bow	14,480	14.95	54.25	2.33%	94
East India and Lansbury	14,859	18.65	51.51	4.42%	109
Limehouse	15,986	11.05	49.41	10.70%	100
Mile End and Globe Town	15,190	8.39	50.56	3.09%	84
Mile End East	13,354	13.87	49.57	5.05%	122
Millwall	23,084	5.01	52.06	0.62%	16
Shadwell	15,110	14.40	40.35	5.44%	94
Spitalfields and Banglatown	10,286	10.79	53.4	12.84%	97
St Dunstan’s and Stepney Green	16,238	11.60	47.14	4.29%	92
St Katharine’s and Wapping	12,411	4.22	43.2	3.59%	55
Weavers	13,206	11.54	49.36	6.99%	218
Whitechapel	14,862	9.22	51.18	12.32%	77

As ever the purpose of this is to provide Tower Hamlets residents with a level of transparency that their council seems incapable of providing. Have a look at the chart and numbers and make your own minds up.

What is apparent from the chart is that while levels of child poverty do not vary greatly from ward to ward 36.86% in Bow West rising to 54.48% in Bethnal Green this is in contrast to the significant variation of grant funds – 12.84% of the monies going to Spitalfields and Banglatown and only 0.62% to Millwall.