Crime Statistics for Stoke Newington, London, Hackney, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stoke Newington in October 2024. There were a total of 1747 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	333
Anti Social Behaviour	248
Theft From The Person	217
Shoplifting	201
Other Theft	152
Burglary	119
Vehicle Crime	116
Public Order	93
Drugs	66
Bicycle Theft	64
Criminal Damage Arson	62
Robbery	59
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	7
All Crime	1747

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 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)	2817
Clapton Park (1.39 miles)	2720
South Tottenham (1.24 miles)	2093
Homerton (1.39 miles)	2078
Dalston (1.39 miles)	2036
Upper Clapton (0.88 miles)	1953
Highbury (1.39 miles)	1764
Lower Clapton (1.39 miles)	1637
Lea Bridge (1.24 miles)	1372
Stoke Newington	1055

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
Clapton Park	631
Canonbury	627
Homerton	514
South Tottenham	480
Dalston	373
Upper Clapton	368
Highbury	352
Stoke Newington	333
Lower Clapton	321
Lea Bridge	285

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.