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BT18 crime statistics
The BT18 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 569 street-crime records for BT18 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.3% 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
569
Latest month (August 2026)
70
Year-on-year
-5.3%
Month-by-month totals
700
48
Sep
37
Oct
39
Nov
27
Dec
29
Jan
52
Feb
47
Mar
50
Apr
65
May
47
Jun
58
Jul
70
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
48
October 2025
37
November 2025
39
December 2025
27
January 2026
29
February 2026
52
March 2026
47
April 2026
50
May 2026
65
June 2026
47
July 2026
58
August 2026
70
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 BT18 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences35.0%
199 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour32.0%
182 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson10.2%
58 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Drugs6.3%
36 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other theft6.2%
35 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting4.0%
23 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other crime2.3%
13 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Burglary1.9%
11 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in BT18
Records by part of BT18: the west 299, the south-west 130, the north-west 42, the north-east 34, the north 30, the centre 7, the south 2.
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 BT18's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT18'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 BT18 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT18 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT18 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
774
2022
854
2023
974
2024
594
2025
571
2026 (part year)
418
Is BT18 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT18 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 47 records a month. The busiest month was August 2026, with 70.
Records here changed by -5.3% on the 12 months before, against -1.7% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months. With 569 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 35.0% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BT18 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 361 postcodes in BT18 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
74.0%
95.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
98.3%
100.0%
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