Borough safety · Inner London · data through August 2026

How safe is Hackney, London?

Hackney, London covers 21 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 59/100 — close to the Inner London median of 60. King's Park scores highest at 80/100; Hoxton East & Shoreditch lowest at 41/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 2 of 21 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 16 moderate, 3 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Hackney, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 King's Park	80/100	Low risk	187
2 Springfield	78/100	Low risk	206
3 Hackney Wick	68/100	Moderate	357
4 Cazenove	67/100	Moderate	346
5 Lea Bridge	67/100	Moderate	353
6 Stamford Hill West	67/100	Moderate	354
7 Clissold	66/100	Moderate	373
8 Stoke Newington	66/100	Moderate	353
9 Woodberry Down	63/100	Moderate	429
10 Hackney Downs	60/100	Moderate	461
11 Victoria	59/100	Moderate	536
12 London Fields	54/100	Moderate	643
13 Brownswood	53/100	Moderate	631
14 Dalston	53/100	Moderate	639
15 De Beauvoir	52/100	Moderate	672
16 Hackney Central	52/100	Moderate	676
17 Homerton	52/100	Moderate	666
18 Shacklewell	52/100	Moderate	664
19 Haggerston	47/100	Elevated	888
20 Hoxton West	44/100	Elevated	1,028
21 Hoxton East & Shoreditch	41/100	Elevated	1,178

How Hackney compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich	80/100	23
Wandsworth	75/100	22
Lewisham	74/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	62/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	60/100	18
Hackney (this page)	59/100	21
Lambeth	58/100	25
Southwark	57/100	23
Camden	57/100	20
Tower Hamlets	54/100	20
Islington	50/100	17
Westminster	48/100	18

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Hackney, London?

King's Park has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Hackney, London, at 80/100 (low risk), from 187 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Springfield (78/100) 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 41/100, with 1,178 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 59/100, against 60 across Inner London. 2 rate low risk, 16 moderate, 3 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.