BT38 crime statistics

The BT38 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,068 street-crime records for BT38 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.5% more than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

2,068

Latest month (August 2026)

173

Year-on-year

+0.5%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 166
October 2025 184
November 2025 122
December 2025 154
January 2026 171
February 2026 160
March 2026 204
April 2026 175
May 2026 175
June 2026 160
July 2026 224
August 2026 173

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 BT38 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in BT38

Published street-crime records in BT38, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of BT38: the south 791, the south-west 669, the east 292, the south-east 152, the centre 88, the north-east 36, the west 27, the north-west 15, the north 4.

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 BT38's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT38'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 BT38 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT38 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for BT38 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,560
2022 2,326
2023 2,255
2024 2,006
2025 2,051
2026 (part year) 1,442

Is BT38 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT38 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BT38 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

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Police forces

All of BT38's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Police Service of Northern Ireland. See crime across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area.

Postcode sectors in BT38

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
BT38 7 658
BT38 8 1,013
BT38 9 397

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

About BT38 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

Broadband

Share of the 902 postcodes in BT38 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.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit85.1%98.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)96.5%99.9%

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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 BT38 postcode district, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. BT38 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/bt38/

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