Crime Statistics for Homerton, London, Hackney, 2024

There were a total of 22 street level crime incidents in Homerton in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Public Order.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	4
Public Order	4
Violent Crime	4
Robbery	3
Other Theft	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
All Crime	22

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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 Homerton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hackney Wick (1.39 miles)	158
Dalston (0.88 miles)	35
Hackney (0.88 miles)	35
Lower Clapton	22
Clapton Park	22
Homerton	22
Lea Bridge (0.62 miles)	13
Lea (Lee) (1.14 miles)	2
Temple Mills (1.24 miles)	0
South Hackney (0.62 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Homerton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hackney Wick	34
Dalston	5
Hackney	5
Lower Clapton	4
Clapton Park	4
Homerton	4
Lea Bridge	2
Lea (Lee)	1
Temple Mills	0
South Hackney	0

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

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 Homerton 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 Homerton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Homerton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Homerton is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dalston	92
2	Homerton	84
3	London Fields	82
4	Hackney Downs	81
5	De Beauvoir	80
6	Victoria	80
7	Mildmay	79
8	Hackney Central	77
9	Lea Bridge	76
10	Shacklewell	67
11	Cazenove	48

Which road in Homerton has the highest level of crime?

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