Police Service of Northern Ireland · Latest published: Year ending March 2025 · Local authority

How much crime does each Northern Ireland district record?

Crimes recorded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland per 1,000 residents in each policing district, as the PSNI publishes them. Policing districts share their boundaries with the eleven local government districts.

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No basemap: boundaries only. A background map is added only from the Ordnance Survey Maps API when a key is configured.

Highest areas

#	Area	per 1,000
1	Belfast · profile	92
2	Derry City and Strabane · profile	64
3	Antrim and Newtownabbey · profile	45
4	Mid and East Antrim · profile	42
5	Newry, Mourne and Down · profile	42
6	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon · profile	40
7	Causeway Coast and Glens · profile	38
8	Lisburn and Castlereagh · profile	35
9	Ards and North Down · profile	34
10	Fermanagh and Omagh · profile	33

Lowest areas

#	Area	per 1,000
11	Mid Ulster · profile	30
10	Fermanagh and Omagh · profile	33
9	Ards and North Down · profile	34
8	Lisburn and Castlereagh · profile	35
7	Causeway Coast and Glens · profile	38
6	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon · profile	40
5	Newry, Mourne and Down · profile	42
4	Mid and East Antrim · profile	42
3	Antrim and Newtownabbey · profile	45
2	Derry City and Strabane · profile	64

All 11 areas, ranked

#	Area	per 1,000
1	Belfast · profile	92
2	Derry City and Strabane · profile	64
3	Antrim and Newtownabbey · profile	45
4	Mid and East Antrim · profile	42
5	Newry, Mourne and Down · profile	42
6	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon · profile	40
7	Causeway Coast and Glens · profile	38
8	Lisburn and Castlereagh · profile	35
9	Ards and North Down · profile	34
10	Fermanagh and Omagh · profile	33
11	Mid Ulster · profile	30

Ranked by recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.

What this map shows

11 of 11 local authority areas have a current value for all recorded crime (recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), Latest published: Year ending March 2025. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.

Every offence the PSNI recorded in the district during the financial year.

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Source and method

Data: Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables (Police Service of Northern Ireland).
Denominator: None is applied here. The PSNI divides its own count by the NISRA mid-year population estimate and publishes the rate; this layer draws that published figure. Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables.
Boundaries: ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
Basemap: None. No third-party tiles are loaded; the map draws official boundaries on a plain background.
Formula: the rate per 1,000 the PSNI publishes for the district, unchanged
Stale areas: A district whose newest published year is earlier than the newest any district carries is shown as no current data, with both years named. Nothing is carried forward.
Method: Methodology