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BT71 crime statistics
The BT71 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,846 street-crime records for BT71 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.3% 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
1,846
Latest month (August 2026)
170
Year-on-year
-0.3%
Month-by-month totals
2040
142
Sep
201
Oct
130
Nov
128
Dec
134
Jan
137
Feb
123
Mar
145
Apr
149
May
204
Jun
183
Jul
170
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
142
October 2025
201
November 2025
130
December 2025
128
January 2026
134
February 2026
137
March 2026
123
April 2026
145
May 2026
149
June 2026
204
July 2026
183
August 2026
170
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 BT71 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences37.2%
687 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour29.3%
541 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.9%
183 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Drugs7.1%
131 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other theft4.1%
75 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting3.8%
70 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other crime3.0%
55 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Vehicle crime2.1%
38 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in BT71
Records by part of BT71: the west 1,029, the north-west 485, the south-west 255, the north 146, the south 116, the north-east 52, the south-east 34, the east 24, the centre 23.
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 BT71's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT71'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 BT71 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT71 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT71 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
2,351
2022
2,101
2023
1,971
2024
1,868
2025
1,828
2026 (part year)
1,245
Is BT71 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT71 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 154 records a month. The busiest month was June 2026, with 204.
Records here changed by -0.3% on the 12 months before, against +7.6% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area, the main force here with 99.9% of BT71's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 37.2% 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 BT71 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 1,043 postcodes in BT71 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
71.8%
97.7%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
90.2%
99.8%
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