Borough safety · Inner London · data through June 2026

How safe is Hackney, London?

Hackney, London covers 21 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 56/100 — below the Inner London median of 59, so more is reported around a typical neighbourhood here than across Inner London. King's Park scores highest at 76/100; Hoxton East & Shoreditch lowest at 40/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 1 of 21 neighbourhoods here rates low risk, 16 moderate, 4 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Hackney, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 King's Park	76/100	Low risk	195
2 Springfield	71/100	Moderate	254
3 Hackney Wick	68/100	Moderate	308
4 Cazenove	64/100	Moderate	375
5 Lea Bridge	63/100	Moderate	376
6 Woodberry Down	63/100	Moderate	407
7 Clissold	62/100	Moderate	387
8 Stamford Hill West	62/100	Moderate	402
9 Stoke Newington	62/100	Moderate	411
10 Victoria	59/100	Moderate	505
11 Hackney Downs	56/100	Moderate	517
12 London Fields	53/100	Moderate	621
13 Brownswood	52/100	Moderate	641
14 Dalston	51/100	Moderate	644
15 Hackney Central	51/100	Moderate	675
16 Homerton	51/100	Moderate	662
17 Shacklewell	50/100	Moderate	688
18 De Beauvoir	49/100	Elevated	727
19 Haggerston	48/100	Elevated	809
20 Hoxton West	43/100	Elevated	1,002
21 Hoxton East & Shoreditch	40/100	Elevated	1,172

How Hackney compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich	79/100	23
Wandsworth	75/100	22
Lewisham	70/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	61/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	59/100	18
Lambeth	56/100	25
Hackney (this page)	56/100	21
Southwark	55/100	23
Camden	55/100	20
Tower Hamlets	55/100	20
Westminster	51/100	18
Islington	48/100	17

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Hackney, London?

King's Park has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Hackney, London, at 76/100 (low risk), from 195 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Springfield (71/100) and Hackney Wick (68/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in Hackney, London has the most reported crime?

Hoxton East & Shoreditch has the lowest index in Hackney, London, at 40/100, with 1,172 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. A low score means more is reported around that centre, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Hackney, London safe?

Across its 21 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 56/100, against 59 across Inner London. 1 rates low risk, 16 moderate, 4 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the borough — check the individual neighbourhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each police-recorded incident by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighbourhood centre, and normalises against national crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Hackney, London is the median of its 21 neighbourhoods — the borough is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident published by the police (via data.police.uk, Open Government Licence) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre (ONS December 2025 ward centroids), and normalise onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Incident locations are anonymised by the police to nearby snap points, so the maps show streets rather than exact addresses. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighbourhoods within Inner London. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — London's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.