Crime and Safety in Brownswood Park, Hackney
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Brownswood Park are violence and sexual offences, with 172 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 19. This is 5% lower than 2025's figure of 182 offences and a difference of 1.11 from 2025's crime rate of 20. Brownswood Park's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 5 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 29% from 2025's figure of 7 crimes.
Brownswood Park 2026 Crime Scorecard
34% lower, borough crime rate
London
10% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Hackney is 34% lower than London and 10% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Hackney Crime Rate Over Time
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Brownswood Park Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Brownswood Park 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 Brownswood Park's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Brownswood Park up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Brownswood Park's 5 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.
Crime Risk Scores
Brownswood Park • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Brownswood Park has a crime risk score of 681. This is based on analysis of 5 nearby areas within Brownswood Park, 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 Brownswood Park's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Brownswood Park, crime risk scores are typically around 681, while in Hackney they are average 680.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 817 (751 for Hackney), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 854 (Hackney 801).
Trends in Crime Risk
Brownswood Park
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.
No trend could be found in Brownswood Park's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Brownswood Park's crime risk score is up by 10%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Over the last year, Brownswood Park's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 4.4%, 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
Brownswood Park
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
Brownswood Park • 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 7.37 reports per 1,000 people in Brownswood Park, which is 4.75 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 67 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 29 reports of Robbery in Brownswood Park, resulting in a crime rate of 3.19 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.95.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 2.62 times the national average at 0.55 reports per 1,000. This is from 5 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Brownswood Park
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.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 5.50 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 2.54 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 117% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.92 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.69 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 33% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.05 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Brownswood Park
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.92 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.37 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 149% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.41 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.79 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 48% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.26 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 2.73 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 54% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Brownswood Park • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 239 | 26.34 | 1.86 | 8,014 | 24.86 | 1.76 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 16 | 1.76 | 3.14 | 1,152 | 3.57 | 4.89 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 39 | 4.29 | 1.48 | 1,879 | 5.84 | 1.87 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 49 | 5.39 | 0.86 | 1,627 | 5.05 | 0.80 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 40 | 4.40 | 1.54 | 2,165 | 6.72 | 2.17 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 10 | 1.10 | 0.90 | 321 | 1.01 | 0.55 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 56 | 6.16 | 1.08 | 3,014 | 9.35 | 1.64 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 5 | 0.55 | 2.62 | 266 | 0.85 | 1.00 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 39 | 4.29 | 0.74 | 2,162 | 6.69 | 1.15 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 29 | 3.19 | 2.95 | 1,515 | 4.70 | 3.98 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 22 | 2.42 | 0.44 | 2,234 | 6.92 | 0.97 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 67 | 7.37 | 4.75 | 4,296 | 13.32 | 8.59 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 43 | 4.73 | 1.10 | 1,913 | 5.95 | 1.38 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 172 | 18.94 | 0.62 | 8,771 | 27.22 | 0.90 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 587 | 64.59 | 0.95 | 31,315 | 97.19 | 1.35 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 586 | 64.47 | 0.93 | 31,001 | 96.80 | 1.31 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 746 | 81.69 | 1.13 | 31,419 | 98.66 | 1.31 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 617 | 69.17 | 0.96 | 29,395 | 93.20 | 1.18 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 713 | 82.05 | 1.11 | 30,096 | 96.81 | 1.26 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 886 | 99.02 | 1.52 | 28,752 | 92.48 | 1.35 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 736 | 81.28 | 1.15 | 29,633 | 95.67 | 1.29 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 693 | 76.78 | 1.07 | 31,381 | 102.59 | 1.35 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 589 | 66.95 | 1.05 | 29,343 | 96.53 | 1.36 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 669 | 77.04 | 1.32 | 29,357 | 96.43 | 1.51 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 210 | 24.26 | 1.33 | 8,407 | 27.56 | 1.45 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Brownswood Park Compared to Other Hackney Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Stoke Newington | 2,881 | 75.07 | 16% more dangerous |
| Manor House | 1,059 | 126.95 | 97% more dangerous |
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