Crime Statistics for Haggerston, London, Hackney, 2024

Crime statistics for Haggerston, London

There were a total of 2278 street level crime incidents in Haggerston in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Haggerston, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime404
Other Theft371
Theft From The Person361
Anti Social Behaviour324
Burglary146
Shoplifting133
Public Order98
Vehicle Crime90
Robbery85
Bicycle Theft84
Criminal Damage Arson84
Drugs76
Possession Of Weapons12
Other Crime10
All Crime2278

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Haggerston. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Haggerston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Finsbury (1.39 miles)4472
Bethnal Green (0.88 miles)2687
Shoreditch (0.88 miles)2636
Spitalfields (1.24 miles)2507
St Luke’s (0.88 miles)2318
Haggerston2278
Dalston (0.88 miles)2099
Hackney (0.88 miles)2099
Canonbury (0.88 miles)1686
South Hackney (1.39 miles)1534

51.07%
of Hoxton West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Haggerston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Finsbury551
Shoreditch503
Bethnal Green491
Dalston423
Hackney423
Spitalfields417
South Hackney407
Haggerston404
St Luke’s389
Canonbury336

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Haggerston?

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 Haggerston 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 Haggerston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Haggerston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Haggerston is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Weavers91
2Haggerston86
3Hoxton East & Shoreditch79
4St Peter's79
5Hoxton West71
6Bunhill52
7Cripplegate5
8Bishopsgate3
9Coleman Street1

Which road in Haggerston has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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