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BT81 crime statistics
The BT81 postcode district, in the BT (Belfast) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 272 street-crime records for BT81 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.9% 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
272
Latest month (August 2026)
16
Year-on-year
-4.9%
Month-by-month totals
340
29
Sep
14
Oct
34
Nov
16
Dec
16
Jan
27
Feb
33
Mar
26
Apr
17
May
21
Jun
23
Jul
16
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
29
October 2025
14
November 2025
34
December 2025
16
January 2026
16
February 2026
27
March 2026
33
April 2026
26
May 2026
17
June 2026
21
July 2026
23
August 2026
16
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 BT81 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 offences42.6%
116 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour23.2%
63 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.6%
26 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft7.4%
20 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Other crime4.0%
11 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Burglary3.3%
9 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Drugs2.9%
8 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Shoplifting2.9%
8 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Where records cluster in BT81
Records by part of BT81: the north-east 236, the east 13, the north-west 9, the north 8, the west 1, 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 BT81's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BT81'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 BT81 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BT81 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BT81 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
424
2022
453
2023
385
2024
387
2025
274
2026 (part year)
179
Is BT81 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BT81 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 23 records a month. The busiest month was November 2025, with 34.
Records here changed by -4.9% on the 12 months before, against +7.6% across the Police Service of Northern Ireland area over the same months. With 272 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 42.6% 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 BT81 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 295 postcodes in BT81 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
80.0%
98.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
85.1%
99.0%
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