Police Service of Northern Ireland · Change over a year: Year ending March 2024 to 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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Derry City and Strabane

−13.5%Change over a year, per cent

The recorded crime rate in Derry City and Strabane moved by −13.5% over a year (Change over a year: Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025), compared with −7.4% for Northern Ireland, Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025 — the 2nd lowest of 11 areas with a published figure.

Area: Derry City and Strabane (N09000005)
Change over a year, per cent: −13.5%
Northern Ireland, Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025: −7.4%
Rank: the 2nd lowest of 11 areas with a published figure
Percentile: 10% of areas with a figure are below it
Period: Change over a year: Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025
Release: Annual trends in police recorded crime, 1998/99 to 2024/25, released 2025-11-28
Published by: Police Service of Northern Ireland
Status: Civometry calculation on published figures

The recorded crime rate in Derry City and Strabane moved by −13.5% over a year (Change over a year: Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025), compared with −7.4% for Northern Ireland, Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025 — the 2nd lowest of 11 areas with a published figure. Civometry calculation using Police Service of Northern Ireland figures.

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Highest areas

#	Area	change
1	Belfast · profile	−3.2%
2	Antrim and Newtownabbey · profile	−4.3%
3	Mid Ulster · profile	−6.2%
4	Mid and East Antrim · profile	−6.7%
5	Causeway Coast and Glens · profile	−9.5%
6	Lisburn and Castlereagh · profile	−10.3%
7	Ards and North Down · profile	−10.5%
8	Fermanagh and Omagh · profile	−10.8%
9	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon · profile	−13.0%
10	Derry City and Strabane · profile	−13.5%

Lowest areas

#	Area	change
11	Newry, Mourne and Down · profile	−14.3%
10	Derry City and Strabane · profile	−13.5%
9	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon · profile	−13.0%
8	Fermanagh and Omagh · profile	−10.8%
7	Ards and North Down · profile	−10.5%
6	Lisburn and Castlereagh · profile	−10.3%
5	Causeway Coast and Glens · profile	−9.5%
4	Mid and East Antrim · profile	−6.7%
3	Mid Ulster · profile	−6.2%
2	Antrim and Newtownabbey · profile	−4.3%

All 11 areas, ranked

#	Area	change
1	Belfast · profile	−3.2%
2	Antrim and Newtownabbey · profile	−4.3%
3	Mid Ulster · profile	−6.2%
4	Mid and East Antrim · profile	−6.7%
5	Causeway Coast and Glens · profile	−9.5%
6	Lisburn and Castlereagh · profile	−10.3%
7	Ards and North Down · profile	−10.5%
8	Fermanagh and Omagh · profile	−10.8%
9	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon · profile	−13.0%
10	Derry City and Strabane · profile	−13.5%
11	Newry, Mourne and Down · profile	−14.3%

Ranked by change over a year, per cent, 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 (change over a year, per cent), Change over a year: Year ending March 2024 to 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.
Coverage: The PSNI publishes recorded crime for all eleven policing districts, which have the same boundaries as the eleven local government districts. England and Wales are drawn by the police-recorded crime layer and Scotland by the Scottish Government layer; each is its own series and they are not added together here.
Boundaries: ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
Basemap: Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.
Formula: (newest published rate − the rate a year earlier) ÷ the rate a year earlier
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

What this does not measure

Crime that was not reported to or recorded by the police, the risk to any individual, or crime in England, Wales or Scotland. The denominator is the resident population, not the number of people present in a district during the day.

Recorded crime in Northern Ireland is counted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland under the Home Office counting rules, but it is a separate series from the England and Wales figures and is never added to them. A recorded crime is one the police recorded, so a change can reflect reporting and recording as much as crime itself. Crimes are counted where the incident happened, not where anyone involved lives. Policing districts have had their present boundaries since the Review of Public Administration took effect in April 2015; the PSNI restates the district series back to 2001/02 on those boundaries and states that the earlier years cannot be placed in them, so there is no district figure before 2001/02. Rates per 1,000 are the PSNI's own, using NISRA mid-year population estimates. Fraud recorded by Action Fraud rather than by the PSNI is counted differently over the series; the workbook sets that out in Table 6.1.

A recorded crime is one the police recorded, so a change can reflect reporting and recording as much as crime itself. Crimes are counted where the incident happened, not where anyone involved lives. The district series begins in 2001-02: the PSNI states that earlier records cannot be placed in the present eleven districts, which took their shape in April 2015. Northern Ireland's figures are a separate series from those for England and Wales and must not be added to them. No direction is set for this layer: more recorded crime can mean more crime or more of it reported.