Photo: Martin Addison · CC BY-SA 2.0Haringey sees more crime per resident than nine in ten UK towns
With 1,847 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, theft from the person reaches 7 per 1,000 residents in Haringey, well above the typical 0.7. Violence recorded locally climbed 5% in a year. What’s more, its letter for safety is D, worked out from crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026: #26 of 33 in London. The local count comes to 38.4 violent and sexual offences and 24.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people each year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Haringey
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% more violent crime per resident in Haringey than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 19% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a borough its size
Of 47 UK towns and cities of 185,000 to 356,000 people, Haringey has the 28th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Northampton, Tower Hamlets and Islington, higher than Southwark, Hackney and Cardiff. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
30% of Haringey’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 7% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: D for Haringey
A firm grade. Built on 49,621 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Haringey against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Haringey runs highest on theft from the person (7 per 1,000 against 0.7), robbery (4.4 per 1,000 against 1.4) and vehicle crime (11.5 per 1,000 against 4.9). Other crime and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 8,982 | 34 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 8,487 | 32.1 | 17.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 3,039 | 11.5 | 4.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2,437 | 9.2 | 10.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 2,424 | 9.2 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 1,858 | 7 | 7.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1,847 | 7 | 0.7 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1,482 | 5.6 | 3.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1,338 | 5.1 | 3.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1,174 | 4.4 | 1.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 1,000 | 3.8 | 7.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 331 | 1.3 | 0.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 318 | 1.2 | 2.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 251 | 1 | 1.1 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Police in Haringey identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 87% of Haringey’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 47% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (37% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 3% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 17,278 crimes.
Crime in Haringey per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 20 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 27 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
30% of Haringey residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
7% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 30% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Haringey’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Lowest recorded crime in Fortis Green, Bounds Green and Hornsey; highest in Noel Park
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortis Green | 12,604 | 15.2 | 18.4 | |
| Bounds Green | 9,828 | 22.1 | 14.9 | |
| Hornsey | 15,029 | 24.1 | 16.1 | |
| Stroud Green | 10,791 | 22.1 | 23.1 | |
| West Green | 14,973 | 28.4 | 17.4 | |
| Alexandra Park | 8,484 | 22.3 | 24.8 | |
| Muswell Hill | 8,775 | 23.1 | 24.3 | |
| Crouch End | 13,045 | 20.6 | 27 | |
| Hermitage & Gardens | 8,435 | 30.3 | 19.8 | |
| Highgate | 12,765 | 22 | 34.9 | |
| White Hart Lane | 13,885 | 37.2 | 23.4 | |
| Harringay | 14,566 | 38.6 | 22.3 | |
| Seven Sisters | 9,236 | 39.9 | 21.7 | |
| St Ann's | 10,593 | 39.6 | 22.9 | |
| Woodside | 15,245 | 47 | 20 | |
| Tottenham Central | 14,737 | 49.2 | 23.5 | |
| Northumberland Park | 14,699 | 48.9 | 27.9 | |
| South Tottenham | 16,822 | 48.6 | 28.6 | |
| Bruce Castle | 13,269 | 56.5 | 31.1 | |
| Tottenham Hale | 12,178 | 59 | 29.2 | |
| Noel Park | 13,712 | 73.4 | 36.6 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 3,588 | 58% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 3,400 | 48% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 2,675 | 40% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 1,758 | 42% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 1,462 | 41% violent |
| Nightclubs | 1,163 | 37% violent |
| College and university buildings | 505 | 35% anti-social behaviour |
| Police stations | 495 | 36% anti-social behaviour |
| Parks and open spaces | 380 | 34% violent |
| Conference and exhibition centres | 301 | 32% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Noel Park records 2.1× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Haringey. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Haringey. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Haringey’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
How crime in Haringey has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +5% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -19% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -11% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +4% (towns its size -2%).
Of 47 towns its size, Haringey is 28th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richmond upon Thames London | 192,888 | 18.8 | 17.9 | 15.9 | C+ |
| 2 | Harrow London | 260,534 | 23.3 | 15.4 | 16 | C+ |
| 3 | Merton London | 214,931 | 24.2 | 14.8 | 16.1 | C+ |
| 4 | Sutton London | 208,858 | 27.1 | 14.6 | 13.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 25 | Southwark London | 307,076 | 40 | 22.1 | 54.3 | D |
| 26 | Hackney London | 258,464 | 40.5 | 21.9 | 42.2 | D |
| 27 | Cardiff South Glamorgan | 348,511 | 40 | 22.4 | 26.6 | D |
| 28 | Haringey London | 264,069 | 38.4 | 24.6 | 29 | D |
| 29 | Belfast Belfast | 293,298 | 45.1 | 19 | 22.6 | D |
| 30 | Plymouth Devon | 266,970 | 49.4 | 14.9 | 16.2 | D |
| 31 | Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire | 197,328 | 46.3 | 19.3 | 23.3 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 47 | Westminster London | 203,571 | 81.4 | 42.3 | 254.6 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Haringey, and others in London.
13 people died in collisions on Haringey’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 4,244 collisions with injuries inside Haringey in five years, in which 13 people died (8 were pedestrians and 2 were cyclists). 555 people were killed or seriously injured: 212 on foot and 139 on a bicycle.
That is 1.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (1.1, 210 towns).
Counting serious injuries too, Haringey had 42.0 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 38% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Haringey’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Haringey
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haringey | 264,069 | 38.4 | 24.6 | D |
| Islington | 216,309 | 44.1 | 24.3 | D |
| Hackney | 258,464 | 40.5 | 21.9 | D |
| Enfield | 329,822 | 32.6 | 24 | C− |
| Waltham Forest | 278,129 | 28.5 | 21 | C− |
| Camden | 209,342 | 48.8 | 30.5 | D− |
| Barnet | 388,572 | 25.3 | 21 | C |
| City of London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | D− |
Haringey records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Hackney, 3 miles away, records 40.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Haringey’s 38.4.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Haringey sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Haringey
Is Haringey safe?
Police recorded 38.4 violent and sexual offences and 24.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Haringey’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 10% of UK towns. Among 47 UK towns of 185,000 to 356,000 people, Haringey is 28th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Haringey?
By council ward, Fortis Green, Bounds Green and Hornsey record the least violent and household crime per resident: 15.2, 22.1 and 24.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 73.4 in Noel Park.
Is crime going up in Haringey?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 19%, shoplifting and theft fell 11% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Haringey town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 1,163 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 37% of them violent, and Noel Park ward records 73.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in May and was lowest in February.
What is the most common crime in Haringey?
Violence & sexual offences: 8,982 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (3,039) and shoplifting (2,437), with 8,487 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Haringey compare with Barnet?
Barnet records 25.3 violent and sexual offences and 21 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Haringey’s 38.4 and 24.6, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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