Crime Statistics for Stoke Newington, London, Hackney, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stoke Newington in September 2024. There were a total of 1207 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 Stoke Newington, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	258
Anti Social Behaviour	242
Shoplifting	135
Theft From The Person	82
Other Theft	80
Vehicle Crime	74
Public Order	70
Criminal Damage Arson	66
Burglary	60
Drugs	50
Bicycle Theft	43
Robbery	31
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1207

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 Stoke Newington. 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 Stoke Newington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Canonbury (1.39 miles)	3120
Highbury (1.39 miles)	2371
South Tottenham (1.24 miles)	2233
Homerton (1.39 miles)	2031
Dalston (1.39 miles)	1824
Lower Clapton (1.39 miles)	1524
Clapton Park (1.39 miles)	1524
Lea Bridge (1.24 miles)	1274
Stoke Newington	1207
Upper Clapton (0.88 miles)	997

Where are the most violent places near Stoke Newington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Canonbury	654
Highbury	575
Homerton	563
Dalston	377
South Tottenham	356
Lower Clapton	341
Clapton Park	341
Lea Bridge	324
Stoke Newington	258
Upper Clapton	229

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Stoke Newington?

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 Stoke Newington 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 Stoke Newington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stoke Newington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Stoke Newington is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dalston	92
2	Hackney Downs	81
3	De Beauvoir	80
4	Canonbury	80
5	Mildmay	79
6	Hackney Central	77
7	Stoke Newington	74
8	Shacklewell	67
9	Clissold	67
10	Stamford Hill West	52
11	Cazenove	48

Which road in Stoke Newington has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Stoke Newington with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Barbauld Road.