Crime and Safety in Hackney
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
Hackney is among the top 10 most dangerous boroughs in London. The overall crime rate in Hackney in 2026 is 97 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to London's overall crime rate, coming in 18% higher than the London rate of 82 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Hackney is among the top 20 most dangerous cities, and the 531st most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In February 2026, Hackney had the worst crime rate in London for drugs, with 159 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.49 per 1,000 daytime population. March 2026 was also a bad month for Hackney residents, when it was again London's most dangerous area for drugs, recording 173 crimes at a rate of 0.54 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in Hackney are violence and sexual offences, with 8,771 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 27. This is 1.4% higher than 2025's figure of 8,647 offences and a difference of 0.37 from 2025's crime rate of 27. Hackney's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 266 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 7% from 2025's figure of 248 crimes.
Hackney 2026 Crime Scorecard
Top 10 Most Dangerous
Boroughs, London
22% higher, regional crime rate
London
35% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Hackney is 22% higher than London and 35% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Hackney Crime Rate Over Time
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Hackney Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Hackney represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Hackney's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Hackney up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Hackney's 4,502 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
CrimeRate Insights
Looking into a specific address in Hackney? CrimeRate Insights reports convert raw numbers into practical insight for any location, from single addresses and postcodes, up to major towns and cities.
Crime rates don’t happen by themselves; they follow people and patterns. Where crowds gather - near pubs and late-night venues, around the station, by supermarkets and forecourts - incidents naturally concentrate.
That doesn’t mean an area is "bad"; it usually means footfall is higher.
Your report explores these factors in a calm, non-judgemental way, putting the numbers in context and helping you spot what’s typical for places like this.
Crime Risk Scores
Hackney • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Hackney has a crime risk score of 680. This is based on analysis of 4,502 nearby areas within Hackney, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Hackney's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Hackney, crime risk scores are typically around 680, while in London they are average 534.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 751 (613 for London), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 801 (London 663).
Trends in Crime Risk
Hackney
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 16% in Hackney's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Hackney's crime risk score is up by 7%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, Hackney's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 0.61%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Hackney
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Hackney • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Theft From the Person offences have a crime rate of 13 reports per 1,000 people in Hackney, which is 8.59 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 4,296 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 1,515 reports of Robbery in Hackney, resulting in a crime rate of 4.70 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.98.
The crime rate for Drugs is 2.17 times the national average at 6.72 reports per 1,000. This is from 2,165 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Hackney
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.98 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.50 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 96% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 10 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 6.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 59% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.35 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.52 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 55% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Hackney
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.63 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 2.03 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 20% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.17 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 1.86 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 37% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.30 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 3.78 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 13% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Hackney • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Hackney | London | Metropolitan Police | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 8,014 | 24.86 | 1.76 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 | 236,187 | 21.58 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 1,152 | 3.57 | 4.89 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 | 13,744 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 1,879 | 5.84 | 1.87 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 | 47,451 | 4.33 | 1.38 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 1,627 | 5.05 | 0.80 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 | 54,220 | 4.97 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 2,165 | 6.72 | 2.17 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 | 53,280 | 4.85 | 1.57 |
| Other Crime | 321 | 1.01 | 0.55 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 | 13,028 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 3,014 | 9.35 | 1.64 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 | 97,779 | 8.95 | 1.57 |
| Possession of Weapons | 266 | 0.85 | 1.00 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 | 6,461 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 2,162 | 6.69 | 1.15 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 | 60,156 | 5.49 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 1,515 | 4.70 | 3.98 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 | 30,857 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 2,234 | 6.92 | 0.97 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 | 88,269 | 8.08 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 4,296 | 13.32 | 8.59 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 | 77,344 | 7.08 | 4.57 |
| Vehicle Crime | 1,913 | 5.95 | 1.38 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 | 81,900 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 8,771 | 27.22 | 0.90 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 | 273,897 | 25.04 | 0.82 |
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Total Crime by Year
Hackney | London | Metropolitan Police | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 31,315 | 97.19 | 1.35 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 | 898,386 | 82.17 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 31,001 | 96.80 | 1.31 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 | 898,787 | 82.94 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 31,419 | 98.66 | 1.31 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 | 902,681 | 84.12 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 29,395 | 93.20 | 1.18 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 | 837,244 | 78.79 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 30,096 | 96.81 | 1.26 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 | 797,303 | 75.56 | 0.98 |
| 2021 | 28,752 | 92.48 | 1.35 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 | 729,401 | 68.83 | 1.00 |
| 2020 | 29,633 | 95.67 | 1.29 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 | 821,362 | 77.41 | 1.04 |
| 2019 | 31,381 | 102.59 | 1.35 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 | 851,175 | 80.59 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 29,343 | 96.53 | 1.36 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 | 811,738 | 76.91 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 29,357 | 96.43 | 1.51 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 | 759,755 | 72.22 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 8,407 | 27.56 | 1.45 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 | 235,003 | 22.39 | 1.17 |
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Crime in Hackney's Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownswood Park | 587 | 64.59 | 34% safer |
| Dalston | 4,687 | 133.45 | 37% more dangerous |
| De Beauvoir Town | 958 | 78.72 | 19% safer |
| Hackney Central | 3,018 | 160.03 | 65% more dangerous |
| Hackney Marshes | 13 | 72.28 | 26% safer |
| Hackney Wick | 1,543 | 113.14 | 16% more dangerous |
| Haggerston | 1,995 | 82.22 | 15% safer |
| Homerton | 2,202 | 108.83 | 12% more dangerous |
| Hoxton | 3,402 | 90.09 | 7% safer |
| Lower Clapton | 2,708 | 111.20 | 14% more dangerous |
| Manor House | 1,059 | 126.95 | 31% more dangerous |
| Shoreditch | 2,306 | 85.38 | 12% safer |
| South Hackney | 1,170 | 88.32 | 9% safer |
| Stamford Hill | 1,697 | 77.02 | 21% safer |
| Stoke Newington | 2,881 | 75.07 | 23% safer |
| Upper Clapton | 1,790 | 70.02 | 28% safer |
Hackney Compared to Other London Boroughs
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Borough | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington and Chelsea | 21,836 | 119.60 | 23% more dangerous |
| Lambeth | 37,842 | 103.24 | 6% more dangerous |
| Newham | 40,892 | 100.22 | 3.1% more dangerous |
| Camden | 39,579 | 97.84 | 0.67% more dangerous |
| Hackney | 31,315 | 97.19 | - |
| Haringey | 28,040 | 95.10 | 2.2% safer |
| Lewisham | 29,090 | 92.69 | 4.6% safer |
| Islington | 31,591 | 90.89 | 6% safer |
| Greenwich | 27,583 | 87.11 | 10% safer |
| Brent | 32,653 | 86.45 | 11% safer |
| Enfield | 29,378 | 85.76 | 12% safer |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 20,786 | 84.88 | 13% safer |
Comparing Hackney to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 18% safer |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 15% safer |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 13% safer |
| Hackney | 97.19 | - |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 0.70% more dangerous |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 8% more dangerous |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 8% more dangerous |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 10% more dangerous |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 10% more dangerous |
| Nottingham | 107.74 | 11% more dangerous |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 29% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around Hackney's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in Hackney that are named and have had crimes recorded within their boundaries in the 12 months to Apr 2026.
| Name | ASB | Drugs | Public Order | Robbery | VSO | All Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairchild's Garden | 24 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 47 |
| Hackney Downs | 31 | 29 | 13 | 11 | 28 | 73 |
| Stonebridge Common | 19 | 1 | - | - | 14 | 17 |
| London Fields | 88 | 16 | 27 | 35 | 122 | 208 |
| Broadway Market Green | 32 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 45 |
| Well Street Common | 46 | 8 | 16 | 8 | 77 | 70 |
| Stoke Newington Common | 16 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 36 | 30 |
| Clapton Common | 44 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 46 | 51 |
| Butterfield Green | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 23 |
| Shacklewell Green | 23 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 35 | 38 |
| Shepherdess Walk | 34 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 37 |
| Dalston Eastern Curve Garden | 13 | 9 | 44 | 35 | 76 | 386 |
| Hackney Marshes Centre | 43 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 63 | 68 |
| Finsbury Park | 186 | 158 | 115 | 120 | 307 | 655 |
| Rowley Gardens | 26 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 21 |
| Springfield Park | 74 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 51 | 53 |
| Skinners' Academy Sports Centre | 37 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 38 | 32 |
| Clissold Park | 111 | 14 | 15 | 23 | 82 | 158 |
| Allen's Gardens | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 4 |
| Abney Park Cemetery | 52 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 44 | 81 |
| Kynaston Gardens | 63 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 49 | 94 |
| West Hackney Recreation Ground | 31 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 34 |
| Somerford Gardens | 4 | 9 | - | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| Shore Gardens | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 22 |
| Hackney Marsh | 13 | 14 | 3 | - | 39 | 31 |
| Mabley Green | 60 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 60 | 76 |
| Hackney Marsh | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Rosemary Gardens | 39 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 82 | 175 |
| Shoreditch Play Park | 14 | - | 1 | 2 | 10 | 17 |
| St Thomas's Square Garden | 39 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 53 | 76 |
| Victoria Park | 119 | 113 | 55 | 25 | 169 | 281 |
| Climbing Centre | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 53 |
| Yorkshire Grove Play Space | 14 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 32 |
| North Millfields Recreation Ground | 70 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 62 | 100 |
| South Millfields Recreation Ground | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| Millfields | 60 | 14 | 17 | 27 | 54 | 81 |
| Kings Hall Leisure Centre | 26 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 29 | 51 |
| St John's Gardens | 30 | 37 | 42 | 49 | 115 | 330 |
| Cassland Road Gardens | 10 | 2 | 19 | 20 | 29 | 273 |
| Stonebridge Gardens | 33 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 39 | 90 |
| Shoreditch Park | 53 | 15 | 12 | 19 | 63 | 184 |
| Hoxton Community Garden | 24 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 50 | 67 |
| Geffrye's Gardens | 14 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 60 |
| St Mary's Community Garden | 2 | 2 | - | 6 | 16 | 14 |
| Haggerston Park | 106 | 27 | 19 | 19 | 73 | 140 |
| Ion Square Gardens | 87 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 42 | 65 |
| Joe White Gardens | 40 | 23 | 11 | 13 | 30 | 132 |
| St Thomas's Recreation Ground | 1 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 36 | 46 |
| Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 21 |
| Lee Valley Velopark | 31 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 55 |
| Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park | 67 | 25 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 108 |
| Ufton Road Gardens | 6 | 8 | - | 1 | 15 | 25 |
| The Robin Hood Community Garden | 29 | 2 | - | - | 19 | 17 |
| Copper Box Arena | 42 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 24 | 131 |
Recent Crimes in Hackney
The 20 most recent crime reports in Hackney.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Orsman Road | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Ash Grove | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Booth Close | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Booth Close | |
| April 2026 | Bicycle theft | On or near Clapton Terrace | |
| April 2026 | Drugs | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Drugs | On or near Nightclub | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Shacklewell Row | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Ebor Street | |
| April 2026 | Robbery | On or near Ainsworth Road | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Theft from the person | On or near Shacklewell Row | |
| April 2026 | Theft from the person | On or near Shacklewell Row | |
| April 2026 | Theft from the person | On or near Plough Yard | |
| April 2026 | Theft from the person | On or near Ash Grove | |
| April 2026 | Theft from the person | On or near Ainsworth Road | |
| April 2026 | Theft from the person | On or near Ebor Street | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Clapton Terrace | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Keyworth Close |
Methodology & Data Sources
Hackney Crime Report
Data Sources & Processing
Every month, CrimeRate processes crime reports from data.police.uk, the UK's official provider of open crime report data. Each crime report includes anonymised coordinates, most often "snapped" to the middle of the nearest street, or to the nearest major landmark. The reports also include the month and year the crime was reported, as well as the type of crime.
Data releases on data.police.uk happen once a month, with a two-month delay. This means that, for example, crimes reported in Hackney during August 2026 will typically become available in October 2026. The latest release is for Apr 2026 and was released in Jun 2026. To provide current and historical crime statistics, CrimeRate processed 61,669,232 crime reports for the latest release.
Hackney Data Points
For Hackney, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2023 release of their Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas dataset, using the PARNCP23CD column value E43000202.
Due to the 2021 Census being conducted during a UK-wide Coronavirus lockdown, the daytime population figures released so far cannot be relied on for purposes such as comparing crime rates. Instead, CrimeRate uses Hackney's daytime - or "workday" - population of 231,093 from the ONS 2011 Census for calculations throughout the site.
All geographic boundaries use the full resolution - extent of the realm versions where provided to avoid missing crime reports near coastlines and rivers - the banks of the Thames in particular - that would otherwise not be included when using the clipped to the coastline datasets.
Calculating Crime Rates
CrimeRate locates the UK region, county, and town/city/village locality for each crime report, and calculates the crime rate by taking the sum of all crime reports, dividing it by the locality's daytime / "workday" population, and multiplying the result by 1,000 to get the crime rate per 1,000.
Crime Risk Score Calculations
CrimeRate calculates crime counts for local, nearby, and wider areas for every postcode in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The postcodes locations are deduplicated by a process that ensures distinct points are approximately 50 metres apart. This process removes the bias that would otherwise come from counting the same crimes several times in heavily populated areas.
Using a custom algorithm developed in-house, CrimeRate applies a crime severity weighting to each area's crime counts, based on the type of crime reported. This increases or decreases the crime count, or zeroes it out entirely, depending on the crime type. A separate crime severity rate is then calculated, standardised, and scaled to fit the crime risk score range of 1 to 1,000, with 1 being the lowest score, and 1,000 the highest.
Crime risk scores undergo further analysis per town, city, and village plus other areas including police forces and neighbourhoods. CrimeRate uses percentiles to work out the most common range of crime risk scores in each locality. This includes identifying the high and low bounds where approximately 68% of scores fall, and finding the median (50th percentile) for easy reference.
The crime types with a weight of zero are: Anti-Social Behaviour; Bicycle Theft; Other Crime; Other Theft; and Shoplifting. The highest weights to are assigned to Violence & Sexual Offences, and the lowest to Vehicle Crime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Crime in Hackney