Crime Statistics for Lea Bridge, London, Hackney, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea Bridge in August 2024. There were a total of 1077 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	329
Violent Crime	297
Public Order	95
Theft From The Person	73
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Vehicle Crime	47
Burglary	40
Robbery	34
Other Theft	28
Shoplifting	28
Drugs	24
Bicycle Theft	18
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	1077

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lea Bridge. 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 Bridge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Clapton Park (0.62 miles)	2315
Temple Mills (1.39 miles)	1318
South Hackney (1.24 miles)	1130
Homerton (0.62 miles)	1114
Lea Bridge	1077
Dalston (1.39 miles)	1025
Stoke Newington (1.24 miles)	937
Upper Clapton (0.88 miles)	758
Lea (Lee) (0.61 miles)	653
Lower Clapton (0.62 miles)	388

Where are the most violent places near Lea Bridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Clapton Park	615
Dalston	519
South Hackney	503
Homerton	417
Temple Mills	403
Lower Clapton	342
Lea Bridge	297
Stoke Newington	257
Upper Clapton	208
Lea (Lee)	186

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lea Bridge?

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 Bridge 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 Bridge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dalston	92
2	Homerton	84
3	London Fields	82
4	Hackney Downs	81
5	De Beauvoir	80
6	Victoria	80
7	Mildmay	79
8	Hackney Central	77
9	Lea Bridge	76
10	Shacklewell	67
11	Cazenove	48

Which road in Lea Bridge has the highest level of crime?

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