Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
BT23 crime statistics
The BT23 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 3,345 street-crime records for BT23 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.8% 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
3,345
Latest month (August 2026)
296
Year-on-year
+1.8%
Month-by-month totals
3360
305
Sep
270
Oct
247
Nov
228
Dec
240
Jan
240
Feb
291
Mar
282
Apr
319
May
291
Jun
336
Jul
296
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
305
October 2025
270
November 2025
247
December 2025
228
January 2026
240
February 2026
240
March 2026
291
April 2026
282
May 2026
319
June 2026
291
July 2026
336
August 2026
296
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 BT23 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Records by part of BT23: the north 2,461, the north-east 575, the north-west 152, the south-west 131, the west 55, the south 53, the south-east 40, the centre 10.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of BT23's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT23'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 BT23 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT23 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT23 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
3,521
2022
3,495
2023
3,731
2024
3,260
2025
3,233
2026 (part year)
2,295
Is BT23 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT23 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 279 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 336.
Records here changed by +1.8% on the 12 months before, against -1.7% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area, the main force here with 99.9% of BT23's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 38.4% 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 BT23 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 1,415 postcodes in BT23 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
79.6%
97.5%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
93.4%
99.6%
Free monthly alerts
Get one email a month when new police records are published for BT23.
Cite this page
This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for BT23 postcode district, with the same source and months.