Crime Statistics for Haggerston, London, Hackney, 2024

There were a total of 230 street level crime incidents in Haggerston in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	53
Violent Crime	39
Theft From The Person	34
Other Theft	33
Public Order	22
Drugs	14
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Burglary	3
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	230

Map of street level crime incidents in February 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.

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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Spitalfields (1.24 miles)	2507
St Luke’s (0.88 miles)	2318
Shoreditch (0.88 miles)	2318
South Hackney (1.39 miles)	1645
Bethnal Green (0.88 miles)	441
Finsbury (1.39 miles)	284
Haggerston	230
Canonbury (0.88 miles)	1
Dalston (0.88 miles)	1
Hackney (0.88 miles)	1

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Spitalfields	417
St Luke’s	389
Shoreditch	389
South Hackney	379
Bethnal Green	68
Haggerston	39
Finsbury	36
Dalston	1
Hackney	1
Canonbury	0

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Weavers	91
2	Haggerston	86
3	Hoxton East & Shoreditch	79
4	St Peter's	79
5	Hoxton West	71
6	Bunhill	52
7	Cripplegate	5
8	Bishopsgate	3
9	Coleman Street	1

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.