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BT56 crime statistics
The BT56 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 760 street-crime records for BT56 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 17.9% 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
760
Latest month (August 2026)
55
Year-on-year
-17.9%
Month-by-month totals
980
50
Sep
67
Oct
49
Nov
39
Dec
51
Jan
59
Feb
62
Mar
76
Apr
76
May
78
Jun
98
Jul
55
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
50
October 2025
67
November 2025
49
December 2025
39
January 2026
51
February 2026
59
March 2026
62
April 2026
76
May 2026
76
June 2026
78
July 2026
98
August 2026
55
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 BT56 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Anti-social behaviour34.6%
263 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Violence and sexual offences27.6%
210 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson10.8%
82 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.9%
45 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs5.4%
41 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Vehicle crime5.0%
38 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Shoplifting3.9%
30 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary3.4%
26 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in BT56
Records by part of BT56: the north-west 382, the west 313, the south-west 30, the centre 10, the east 8, the north-east 7, the north 3.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 270 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of BT56's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT56'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 BT56 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT56 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT56 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
843
2022
856
2023
760
2024
800
2025
896
2026 (part year)
555
Is BT56 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT56 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 63 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 98.
Records here changed by -17.9% on the 12 months before, against -1.7% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months. With 760 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category, at 34.6% 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 BT56 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 236 postcodes in BT56 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
83.9%
99.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
97.0%
100.0%
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