Crime Statistics for Lea (Lee), London, Waltham Forest, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea (Lee) in August 2024. There were a total of 653 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	202
Violent Crime	186
Public Order	54
Theft From The Person	48
Burglary	36
Vehicle Crime	30
Robbery	26
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Drugs	16
Other Theft	14
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	6
Shoplifting	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	653

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 (Lee). 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 (Lee)

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Clapton Park (1.14 miles)	2315
Temple Mills (1.33 miles)	1318
South Hackney (1.73 miles)	1130
Homerton (1.14 miles)	1114
Lea Bridge (0.61 miles)	1077
Stoke Newington (1.73 miles)	937
Walthamstow (1.64 miles)	826
Upper Clapton (1.07 miles)	758
Lea (Lee)	653
Lower Clapton (1.14 miles)	388

Where are the most violent places near Lea (Lee)?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Clapton Park	615
South Hackney	503
Homerton	417
Temple Mills	403
Lower Clapton	342
Lea Bridge	297
Stoke Newington	257
Upper Clapton	208
Walthamstow	206
Lea (Lee)	186

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lea (Lee)?

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 (Lee) 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 (Lee) compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dalston	92
2	Hackney Wick	87
3	Homerton	84
4	Hackney Downs	81
5	Markhouse	79
6	Hackney Central	77
7	Lea Bridge	76
8	King's Park	72
9	Shacklewell	67
10	Springfield	57
11	Cazenove	48

Which road in Lea (Lee) has the highest level of crime?

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