Crime Statistics for Stoke Newington, London, Hackney, 2024

Crime statistics for Stoke Newington, London

There were a total of 1278 street level crime incidents in Stoke Newington in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour278
Violent Crime277
Other Theft110
Theft From The Person94
Vehicle Crime86
Burglary83
Criminal Damage Arson82
Shoplifting69
Public Order65
Robbery53
Bicycle Theft38
Drugs28
Other Crime12
Possession Of Weapons3
All Crime1278

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 Stoke Newington. 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 Stoke Newington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Dalston (1.39 miles)2099
Canonbury (1.39 miles)1686
Lower Clapton (1.39 miles)1667
Clapton Park (1.39 miles)1667
Homerton (1.39 miles)1667
Highbury (1.39 miles)1415
Lea Bridge (1.24 miles)1353
Stoke Newington1278
South Tottenham (1.24 miles)1089
Upper Clapton (0.88 miles)913

34.05%
of Clissold residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Stoke Newington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Dalston423
Lower Clapton399
Clapton Park399
Homerton399
Lea Bridge346
Canonbury336
Highbury311
Stoke Newington277
South Tottenham255
Upper Clapton226

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

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 Stoke Newington 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 Stoke Newington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stoke Newington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Stoke Newington is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Dalston92
2Hackney Downs81
3De Beauvoir80
4Canonbury80
5Mildmay79
6Hackney Central77
7Stoke Newington74
8Shacklewell67
9Clissold67
10Stamford Hill West52
11Cazenove48

Which road in Stoke Newington has the highest level of crime?

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

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