Crime Statistics for South Hackney, London, Hackney, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Hackney in October 2024. There were a total of 1636 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 South Hackney, 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	364
Anti Social Behaviour	340
Theft From The Person	184
Other Theft	136
Public Order	99
Vehicle Crime	94
Bicycle Theft	79
Burglary	78
Shoplifting	78
Drugs	64
Criminal Damage Arson	49
Robbery	48
Other Crime	19
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1636

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hackney (0.62 miles)	3267
Clapton Park (0.62 miles)	2720
Homerton (0.62 miles)	2078
Dalston (0.62 miles)	2036
Lower Clapton (0.62 miles)	1637
South Hackney	1636
Hackney Wick (1.24 miles)	1392
Lea Bridge (1.24 miles)	1372
Temple Mills (1.39 miles)	1167
Old Ford (0.88 miles)	1075

Where are the most violent places near South Hackney?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hackney	690
Clapton Park	631
Old Ford	554
Homerton	514
Dalston	373
South Hackney	364
Lower Clapton	321
Lea Bridge	285
Hackney Wick	256
Temple Mills	225

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in South Hackney?

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 South Hackney 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 South Hackney compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dalston	92
2	Haggerston	86
3	St Peter's	86
4	Homerton	84
5	London Fields	82
6	De Beauvoir	80
7	Victoria	80
8	Mildmay	79
9	Hackney Central	77
10	Bethnal Green	76
11	Shacklewell	67

Which road in South Hackney has the highest level of crime?

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