Crime Statistics for Hornsey, London, Haringey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hornsey in October 2024. There were a total of 801 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Shoplifting.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	184
Shoplifting	161
Violent Crime	117
Vehicle Crime	84
Theft From The Person	50
Other Theft	46
Burglary	45
Public Order	29
Robbery	26
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Drugs	19
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	801

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 Hornsey. 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 Hornsey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New River (1.08 miles)	2149
Finsbury Park (1.86 miles)	1916
Harringay (0.88 miles)	1238
Hornsey Vale (0.62 miles)	1041
Bowes Park (1.24 miles)	836
Hornsey	801
Crouch End (0.88 miles)	765
Highgate (1.75 miles)	593
Cranley Gardens (1.24 miles)	334
Fortis Green (1.86 miles)	258

Where are the most violent places near Hornsey?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New River	399
Finsbury Park	376
Harringay	202
Hornsey Vale	191
Bowes Park	182
Crouch End	142
Highgate	134
Hornsey	117
Cranley Gardens	59
Fortis Green	44

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

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 Hornsey 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 Hornsey compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Noel Park	89
2	West Green	82
3	Harringay	76
4	Hillrise	75
5	Seven Sisters	74
6	Stroud Green	71
7	Muswell Hill	67
8	Crouch End	66
9	Hornsey	66
10	Highgate	61
11	Alexandra	57

Which road in Hornsey has the highest level of crime?

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