Crime Statistics for Lea (Lee), London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea (Lee) in September 2024. There were a total of 756 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lea (Lee), this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime187
Anti Social Behaviour157
Other Theft55
Public Order54
Theft From The Person53
Vehicle Crime53
Burglary52
Criminal Damage Arson37
Drugs33
Robbery33
Bicycle Theft19
Shoplifting11
Other Crime10
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime756

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lea (Lee). This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Lea (Lee)

We've taken the ten nearest places to Lea (Lee) and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Lea (Lee) has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Walthamstow (1.64 miles)2228
Homerton (1.14 miles)2031
Lower Clapton (1.14 miles)1524
Clapton Park (1.14 miles)1524
Lea Bridge (0.61 miles)1274
Stoke Newington (1.73 miles)1207
South Hackney (1.73 miles)1139
Temple Mills (1.33 miles)1022
Upper Clapton (1.07 miles)997
Lea (Lee)756

36.47%
of Lea Bridge (Hackney) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lea (Lee)?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Lea (Lee) and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Walthamstow816
Homerton563
South Hackney524
Lower Clapton341
Clapton Park341
Lea Bridge324
Stoke Newington258
Upper Clapton229
Lea (Lee)187
Temple Mills181

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lea (Lee)?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Lea (Lee) to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Lea (Lee) compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lea (Lee) and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lea (Lee) is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Dalston92
2Hackney Wick87
3Homerton84
4Hackney Downs81
5Markhouse79
6Hackney Central77
7Lea Bridge76
8King's Park72
9Shacklewell67
10Springfield57
11Cazenove48

Which road in Lea (Lee) has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Lea (Lee) with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

Last updated: September 2024
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