BT40 crime statistics

Last 12 published months

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

Month-by-month totals

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 BT40 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

• Anti-social behaviour34.9%

  542 records · England and Wales 15.7%

• Violence and sexual offences33.5%

  520 records · England and Wales 35.5%

• Criminal damage and arson9.5%

  148 records · England and Wales 7.0%

• Drugs6.2%

  96 records · England and Wales 3.4%

• Other theft4.7%

  73 records · England and Wales 6.7%

• Shoplifting3.9%

  60 records · England and Wales 8.7%

• Burglary2.4%

  38 records · England and Wales 3.7%

• Other crime2.1%

  32 records · England and Wales 2.2%

Where records cluster in BT40

Records by part of BT40: the centre 526, the north 336, the east 302, the north-east 183, the south-east 79, the south-west 37, the west 36, the north-west 29, the south 28.

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 BT40's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT40'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 BT40 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT40 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for BT40 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Police forces

BT40's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Police Service of Northern Ireland (99.9%) and Durham Constabulary (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in BT40

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

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

About BT40 beyond crime

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

Broadband

Share of the 724 postcodes in BT40 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.

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CrimeMapsUK. BT40 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/bt40/