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BT17 crime statistics
The BT17 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,538 street-crime records for BT17 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.2% fewer than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
2,538
Latest month (August 2026)
215
Year-on-year
-2.2%
Month-by-month totals
2890
178
Sep
217
Oct
193
Nov
202
Dec
215
Jan
186
Feb
188
Mar
214
Apr
219
May
222
Jun
289
Jul
215
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
178
October 2025
217
November 2025
193
December 2025
202
January 2026
215
February 2026
186
March 2026
188
April 2026
214
May 2026
219
June 2026
222
July 2026
289
August 2026
215
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Northern Ireland runs its own census, which is not loaded here, so no rate is shown.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of BT17 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Anti-social behaviour34.7%
880 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Violence and sexual offences30.8%
782 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson9.7%
247 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Drugs6.0%
152 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other theft5.6%
141 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Other crime3.3%
83 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Burglary2.9%
74 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime2.5%
63 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in BT17
Records by part of BT17: the south 926, the south-east 732, the south-west 330, the north 189, the east 80, the north-east 61, the north-west 48, the centre 48, the west 18.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 280 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of BT17's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT17's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of BT17 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT17 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT17 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
2,913
2022
2,869
2023
2,642
2024
2,401
2025
2,625
2026 (part year)
1,748
Is BT17 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT17 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 212 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 289.
Records here changed by -2.2% on the 12 months before, against -1.7% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category, at 34.7% of records, against 15.7% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BT17 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
Broadband
Share of the 558 postcodes in BT17 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
82.4%
97.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
98.7%
99.8%
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