Antrim and Newtownabbey council area. Every figure carries its own date.
What the recorded figures show, and what they cannot tell us.
Recorded crime and population
A larger population can mean more recorded offences even when the number of offences per resident falls. Read the total and the rate together.
A checked recorded-crime total and matching population rate for this exact council area are not available in this collection yet. The local mapped records below remain a separate measure.
Can we test the population theory over 30 years?
Only where the offence definitions, recording practices and area boundaries are comparable. Changes in reporting, police recording and the types of crime matter too. We do not join incompatible series or invent missing years.
PSNI national long-run index verified; district workbook/coverage not verified. No mapped Police.uk substitute.
A comparable 30-year crime-and-population trend has not been established for this area.
For example, if offences rose by 10% while population rose by 20%, offences per resident would fall by about 8%. This is an illustration, not a finding about this area.
People commuting or visiting can also affect offences recorded in a place. The resident population is a useful common denominator, but does not count everyone present.
What could help? Follow the types and locations of repeated problems, check residents’ experiences, and assess the response. Area population totals do not identify who commits offences.
Police-recorded locations for Antrim and Newtownabbey council area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
6,103 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 6,231 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
Antrim and Newtownabbey council area · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 540 mapped crimes in September 2024; 552 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
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September 2024August 2026
The line joins consecutive published observations.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · Antrim and Newtownabbey
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
540
221
October 2024
539
271
November 2024
535
164
December 2024
538
172
January 2025
503
169
February 2025
520
185
March 2025
540
277
April 2025
454
274
May 2025
549
305
June 2025
492
227
July 2025
506
293
August 2025
515
293
September 2025
424
266
October 2025
551
258
November 2025
439
165
December 2025
479
218
January 2026
469
217
February 2026
547
203
March 2026
554
308
April 2026
442
238
May 2026
563
272
June 2026
568
310
July 2026
515
261
August 2026
552
281
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · Antrim and Newtownabbey
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
2,925
criminal damage arson
989
other theft
563
drugs
514
shoplifting
414
other crime
233
burglary
159
vehicle crime
125
possession of weapons
79
public order
63
bicycle theft
21
robbery
13
theft from the person
5
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and unusable locations excluded.
An empty ward count means no mapped rows in the complete required force files; it does not prove that no crime occurred.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for September 2024. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for March 2025. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for April 2025. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for May 2025. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
