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BT53 crime statistics
The BT53 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,048 street-crime records for BT53 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 10.8% 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
1,048
Latest month (August 2026)
107
Year-on-year
+10.8%
Month-by-month totals
1330
90
Sep
88
Oct
58
Nov
79
Dec
76
Jan
81
Feb
60
Mar
83
Apr
85
May
108
Jun
133
Jul
107
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
90
October 2025
88
November 2025
58
December 2025
79
January 2026
76
February 2026
81
March 2026
60
April 2026
83
May 2026
85
June 2026
108
July 2026
133
August 2026
107
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 BT53 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Anti-social behaviour37.6%
394 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Violence and sexual offences31.2%
327 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson10.9%
114 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.3%
56 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting4.8%
50 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Drugs3.1%
32 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Burglary2.6%
27 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Other crime2.6%
27 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in BT53
Records by part of BT53: the west 716, the north-west 98, the north 61, the north-east 56, the south-west 52, the east 34, the south 10, the south-east 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 BT53's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT53'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 BT53 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT53 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT53 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,127
2022
1,077
2023
1,130
2024
933
2025
956
2026 (part year)
733
Is BT53 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT53 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 87 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 133.
Records here changed by +10.8% on the 12 months before, against +7.6% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category, at 37.6% 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 BT53 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 739 postcodes in BT53 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
75.2%
97.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
89.7%
99.9%
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