Official statistics · 3 of 6 measures compare directly
Belfast and Birmingham compared
Every measure Civometry publishes for both areas, side by side. Each figure is its publisher’s own for the period named beside it, and the difference between the two is stated in the middle. Neither area is called better: which direction counts as better depends on what you are asking, and the page does not decide that for you. Where the two figures are not comparable — a different period, or nothing published for one side — the row says so instead of showing a difference.
Belfast
N09000003 · Northern Ireland
Birmingham
E08000025 · West Midlands Police
Getting better or worse
−1
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
The same in both
−1
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
Population
No published figure
NISRA: Mid-year population estimates for Northern Ireland, administrative area totals
No published figure for Belfast.
1,176,960
ONS: Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series
Average house price
£184,768
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
£49,382 more in Birmingham
£234,150
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
All claimants
3.8%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
6.2 percentage points higher in Birmingham
10.0%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
All recorded crime
92
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables
Not published for Birmingham.
Not published for this area
House price to pay ratio
No published figure
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
No published figure for Belfast.
6.5 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
In one sentence
In the latest published figures, average house price was £184,768 in Belfast and £234,150 in Birmingham (June 2026); and all claimants was 3.8% in Belfast and 10.0% in Birmingham (July 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
In the latest published figures, average house price was £184,768 in Belfast and £234,150 in Birmingham (June 2026); and all claimants was 3.8% in Belfast and 10.0% in Birmingham (July 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
Recorded crime by category
A category-by-category crime comparison needs both areas to have a full, current twelve months in the data.police.uk archive. One of them does not, so it is not shown; the crime rate above, where published, still comes from that archive.
What this comparison rests on
Two figures are only subtracted when they are the same measure over the same period. Populations differ (— and 1,176,960 residents on the latest estimates used here), so counts are shown alongside rates rather than instead of them. Nothing on this page is weighted, indexed or scored: every difference is one published number minus another, and the rows that cannot be compared say why.