Crime and Safety in Hackney Marshes, Hackney
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Hackney Marshes is theft from the person, with 3 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 17. This is the same as 2025's figure of 3 offences and a difference of 0.00 from 2025's crime rate of 17. Hackney Marshes's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 0 offences recorded in 2026.
Hackney Marshes 2026 Crime Scorecard
26% lower, borough crime rate
London
0.42% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Hackney is 26% lower than London and 0.42% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Hackney Crime Rate Over Time
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Hackney Marshes Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Hackney Marshes 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 Marshes's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Hackney Marshes up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Hackney Marshes's 294 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
Hackney Marshes • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Hackney Marshes has a crime risk score of 738. This is based on analysis of 294 nearby areas within Hackney Marshes, 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 Marshes's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Hackney Marshes, crime risk scores are typically around 738, while in Hackney they are average 680.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 769 (751 for Hackney), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 809 (Hackney 801).
Trends in Crime Risk
Hackney Marshes
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 Hackney Marshes'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 Hackney Marshes's crime risk score is up by 14%. 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, Hackney Marshes's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 0.35%, 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
Hackney Marshes
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 Marshes • 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.
Robbery offences have a crime rate of 11 reports per 1,000 people in Hackney Marshes, which is 56 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 2 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 3 reports of Theft From the Person in Hackney Marshes, resulting in a crime rate of 17 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 43.
The crime rate for Vehicle Crime is 16 times the national average at 17 reports per 1,000. This is from 3 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Hackney Marshes
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.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 144 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Hackney Marshes
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Theft From the Person offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 46 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 116 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 60% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 2.13 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Hackney Marshes • 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 | 1 | 5.56 | 5.45 | 8,014 | 24.86 | 1.76 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | - | - | - | 1,152 | 3.57 | 4.89 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | - | - | - | 1,879 | 5.84 | 1.87 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 1 | 5.56 | 11 | 1,627 | 5.05 | 0.80 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | - | - | - | 2,165 | 6.72 | 2.17 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | - | - | - | 321 | 1.01 | 0.55 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 1 | 5.56 | 11 | 3,014 | 9.35 | 1.64 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | - | - | - | 266 | 0.85 | 1.00 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | - | - | - | 2,162 | 6.69 | 1.15 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 2 | 11.12 | 56 | 1,515 | 4.70 | 3.98 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | - | - | - | 2,234 | 6.92 | 0.97 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 3 | 16.68 | 43 | 4,296 | 13.32 | 8.59 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 3 | 16.68 | 16 | 1,913 | 5.95 | 1.38 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 3 | 16.68 | 2.18 | 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 | 13 | 72.28 | 7.02 | 31,315 | 97.19 | 1.35 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 23 | 124.77 | 6.03 | 31,001 | 96.80 | 1.31 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 39 | 217.36 | 10 | 31,419 | 98.66 | 1.31 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 65 | 374.27 | 14 | 29,395 | 93.20 | 1.18 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 63 | 356.71 | 11 | 30,096 | 96.81 | 1.26 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 76 | 425.29 | 13 | 28,752 | 92.48 | 1.35 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 81 | 457.93 | 14 | 29,633 | 95.67 | 1.29 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 79 | 445.49 | 13 | 31,381 | 102.59 | 1.35 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 52 | 295.15 | 11 | 29,343 | 96.53 | 1.36 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 43 | 248.23 | 10 | 29,357 | 96.43 | 1.51 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 9 | 52.31 | 15 | 8,407 | 27.56 | 1.45 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Hackney Marshes Compared to Other Hackney Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Homerton | 2,202 | 108.83 | 51% more dangerous |
| Lower Clapton | 2,708 | 111.20 | 54% more dangerous |
| Hackney Wick | 1,543 | 113.14 | 57% more dangerous |
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