Crime Statistics for Hackney Wick, London, Tower Hamlets, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hackney Wick in October 2024. There were a total of 1392 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	259
Violent Crime	256
Theft From The Person	181
Other Theft	139
Shoplifting	134
Burglary	80
Vehicle Crime	76
Drugs	64
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Public Order	49
Robbery	46
Bicycle Theft	34
Other Crime	14
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	1392

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 Hackney Wick. 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 Hackney Wick

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stratford New Town (0.62 miles)	3188
Clapton Park (1.39 miles)	2720
South Hackney (1.24 miles)	1636
Stratford (0.62 miles)	1603
Hackney Wick	1392
Bromley (1.24 miles)	1359
Stratford Marsh (0.62 miles)	1196
Mill Meads (0.88 miles)	1190
Temple Mills (0.62 miles)	1167
Old Ford (0.88 miles)	1075

Where are the most violent places near Hackney Wick?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stratford New Town	1041
Clapton Park	631
Old Ford	554
Bromley	449
South Hackney	364
Stratford Marsh	277
Mill Meads	266
Stratford	261
Hackney Wick	256
Temple Mills	225

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

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 Hackney Wick 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 Hackney Wick compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hackney Wick	87
2	Bow West	85
3	Homerton	84
4	Forest Gate South	81
5	Bromley North	80
6	Bromley South	80
7	Victoria	80
8	Stratford and New Town	79
9	Bow East	76
10	Bethnal Green	76
11	King's Park	72

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

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