BT61 crime statistics

The BT61 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,141 street-crime records for BT61 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.0% more than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

1,141

Latest month (August 2026)

90

Year-on-year

+3.0%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 126
October 2025 88
November 2025 88
December 2025 77
January 2026 85
February 2026 58
March 2026 110
April 2026 97
May 2026 104
June 2026 109
July 2026 109
August 2026 90

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 BT61 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in BT61

Published street-crime records in BT61, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of BT61: the south 1,277, the south-west 88, the south-east 62, the east 50, the west 40, the north-east 19, the north 9, the centre 3, the north-west 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 BT61's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT61'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 BT61 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT61 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for BT61 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,130
2022 1,179
2023 1,221
2024 1,020
2025 1,132
2026 (part year) 762

Is BT61 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT61 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BT61 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

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Police forces

All of BT61's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Police Service of Northern Ireland. See crime across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area.

Postcode sectors in BT61

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

Sector Street-crime records
BT61 7 710
BT61 8 181
BT61 9 250

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

About BT61 beyond crime

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

Broadband

Share of the 459 postcodes in BT61 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.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit58.2%94.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)78.2%99.8%

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This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for BT61 postcode district, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. BT61 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/bt61/

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