Crime and Safety in De Beauvoir Town, Hackney
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in De Beauvoir Town are violence and sexual offences, with 220 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 18. This is 0.90% lower than 2025's figure of 222 offences and a difference of 0.14 from 2025's crime rate of 18. De Beauvoir Town's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 6 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 14% from 2025's figure of 7 crimes.
De Beauvoir Town 2026 Crime Scorecard
19% lower, borough crime rate
London
9% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Hackney is 19% lower than London and 9% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Hackney Crime Rate Over Time
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De Beauvoir Town Crime Map
Incidents mapped in De Beauvoir Town 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 De Beauvoir Town's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around De Beauvoir Town up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of De Beauvoir Town's 4 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
De Beauvoir Town • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within De Beauvoir Town has a crime risk score of 668. This is based on analysis of 4 nearby areas within De Beauvoir Town, 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 De Beauvoir Town's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in De Beauvoir Town, crime risk scores are typically around 668, while in Hackney they are average 680.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 736 (751 for Hackney), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 792 (Hackney 801).
Trends in Crime Risk
De Beauvoir Town
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 23% in De Beauvoir Town'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.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in De Beauvoir Town's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, De Beauvoir Town's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 1.1%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
De Beauvoir Town
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
De Beauvoir Town • 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 11 reports per 1,000 people in De Beauvoir Town, which is 6.79 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 128 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 38 reports of Robbery in De Beauvoir Town, resulting in a crime rate of 3.11 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.14.
The crime rate for Drugs is 2.90 times the national average at 8.97 reports per 1,000. This is from 109 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
De Beauvoir Town
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, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.43 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 2.43 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 41% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.85 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.53 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 60% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
De Beauvoir Town
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.49 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 2.68 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 82% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
De Beauvoir Town • 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 | 265 | 21.79 | 1.54 | 8,014 | 24.86 | 1.76 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 38 | 3.13 | 4.29 | 1,152 | 3.57 | 4.89 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 56 | 4.59 | 1.47 | 1,879 | 5.84 | 1.87 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 51 | 4.19 | 0.67 | 1,627 | 5.05 | 0.80 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 109 | 8.97 | 2.90 | 2,165 | 6.72 | 2.17 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 11 | 0.89 | 0.73 | 321 | 1.01 | 0.55 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 74 | 6.09 | 1.16 | 3,014 | 9.35 | 1.64 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 6 | 0.49 | 2.23 | 266 | 0.85 | 1.00 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 56 | 4.58 | 0.92 | 2,162 | 6.69 | 1.15 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 38 | 3.11 | 3.14 | 1,515 | 4.70 | 3.98 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 80 | 6.57 | 1.00 | 2,234 | 6.92 | 0.97 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 128 | 10.53 | 6.79 | 4,296 | 13.32 | 8.59 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 91 | 7.49 | 1.74 | 1,913 | 5.95 | 1.38 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 220 | 18.09 | 0.60 | 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 | 958 | 78.72 | 1.15 | 31,315 | 97.19 | 1.35 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 852 | 69.95 | 0.96 | 31,001 | 96.80 | 1.31 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 972 | 81.22 | 1.12 | 31,419 | 98.66 | 1.31 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 877 | 74.76 | 1.00 | 29,395 | 93.20 | 1.18 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 878 | 75.37 | 1.05 | 30,096 | 96.81 | 1.26 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 994 | 84.41 | 1.29 | 28,752 | 92.48 | 1.35 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 862 | 73.38 | 1.05 | 29,633 | 95.67 | 1.29 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 930 | 80.37 | 1.15 | 31,381 | 102.59 | 1.35 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 815 | 70.54 | 1.08 | 29,343 | 96.53 | 1.36 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 922 | 80.00 | 1.35 | 29,357 | 96.43 | 1.51 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 265 | 23.04 | 1.27 | 8,407 | 27.56 | 1.45 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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De Beauvoir Town Compared to Other Hackney Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Haggerston | 1,995 | 82.22 | 4.4% more dangerous |
| Dalston | 4,687 | 133.45 | 70% more dangerous |
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