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BT42 crime statistics
The BT42 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,086 street-crime records for BT42 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.4% fewer 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
2,086
Latest month (August 2026)
209
Year-on-year
-6.4%
Month-by-month totals
2190
160
Sep
159
Oct
147
Nov
143
Dec
156
Jan
190
Feb
168
Mar
168
Apr
193
May
174
Jun
219
Jul
209
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
160
October 2025
159
November 2025
147
December 2025
143
January 2026
156
February 2026
190
March 2026
168
April 2026
168
May 2026
193
June 2026
174
July 2026
219
August 2026
209
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 BT42 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 BT42: the west 1,982, the south 164, the north 110, the north-west 89, the south-west 46, the south-east 36, the north-east 23, the east 12, the centre 1.
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 BT42's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT42'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 BT42 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT42 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT42 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
2,729
2022
2,671
2023
2,517
2024
2,212
2025
2,137
2026 (part year)
1,477
Is BT42 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT42 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 174 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 219.
Records here changed by -6.4% on the 12 months before, against -1.7% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 34.9% 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 BT42 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 825 postcodes in BT42 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
76.2%
98.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
92.4%
100.0%
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