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BT21 crime statistics
The BT21 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 442 street-crime records for BT21 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 54.5% more 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
442
Latest month (August 2026)
29
Year-on-year
+54.5%
Month-by-month totals
610
36
Sep
61
Oct
30
Nov
33
Dec
48
Jan
31
Feb
39
Mar
35
Apr
35
May
30
Jun
35
Jul
29
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
36
October 2025
61
November 2025
30
December 2025
33
January 2026
48
February 2026
31
March 2026
39
April 2026
35
May 2026
35
June 2026
30
July 2026
35
August 2026
29
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 BT21 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Anti-social behaviour46.6%
206 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Violence and sexual offences30.5%
135 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson9.3%
41 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft4.8%
21 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Other crime2.3%
10 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Drugs1.6%
7 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Shoplifting1.6%
7 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary1.4%
6 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in BT21
Records by part of BT21: the east 268, the north-east 112, the west 6, the north 3.
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 BT21's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT21'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 BT21 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT21 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT21 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
411
2022
373
2023
344
2024
316
2025
352
2026 (part year)
282
Is BT21 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT21 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 37 records a month. The busiest month was October 2025, with 61.
Records here changed by +54.5% on the 12 months before, against +7.6% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months. With 442 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category, at 46.6% 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 BT21 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 229 postcodes in BT21 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
78.6%
98.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
93.9%
99.1%
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