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BT79 crime statistics
The BT79 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,116 street-crime records for BT79 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.8% 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
1,116
Latest month (August 2026)
100
Year-on-year
+7.8%
Month-by-month totals
1150
93
Sep
88
Oct
83
Nov
78
Dec
80
Jan
105
Feb
96
Mar
87
Apr
115
May
77
Jun
114
Jul
100
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
93
October 2025
88
November 2025
83
December 2025
78
January 2026
80
February 2026
105
March 2026
96
April 2026
87
May 2026
115
June 2026
77
July 2026
114
August 2026
100
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 BT79 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 offences35.8%
399 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour34.1%
381 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.6%
74 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.8%
65 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Other crime5.2%
58 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Drugs4.7%
53 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Shoplifting2.5%
28 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary1.7%
19 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in BT79
Records by part of BT79: the south-west 1,261, the west 266, the south 70, the north-west 64, the south-east 46, the north-east 21, the north 11, the east 3.
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 BT79's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT79'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 BT79 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT79 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT79 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,249
2022
1,216
2023
1,324
2024
1,031
2025
1,016
2026 (part year)
774
Is BT79 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT79 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 93 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 115.
Records here changed by +7.8% on the 12 months before, against +7.6% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 35.8% 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 BT79 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 931 postcodes in BT79 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
68.6%
97.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
81.5%
99.1%
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