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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.
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
2240
166
Sep
184
Oct
122
Nov
154
Dec
171
Jan
160
Feb
204
Mar
175
Apr
175
May
160
Jun
224
Jul
173
Aug
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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.
Anti-social behaviour34.5%
714 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Violence and sexual offences33.5%
693 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson9.5%
197 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting6.3%
131 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft5.8%
119 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs4.2%
87 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other crime2.4%
49 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Burglary1.4%
29 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in BT38
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.
About 172 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 224.
Records here changed by +0.5% 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 34.5% 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 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
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 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.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
85.1%
98.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
96.5%
99.9%
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