VEHICLE CRIME NI / COUNCIL STATISTICS
Vehicle crime in Belfast
Explore police-recorded vehicle offences, three years of mapped crime history and approximate local crime locations.
LOCAL RECORDS
Vehicle crime at a glance
PSNI also recorded 451 theft-from-vehicle offences and 43 aggravated vehicle-taking offences in Belfast during 2024/25. These categories are reported separately from the mapped records.
VEHICLE CRIME INTELLIGENCE
Understanding vehicle crime in Belfast
Analysis of mapped vehicle-crime records from September 2023 to August 2026. Figures describe recorded incidents, not individual risk.
What the latest figures show
The latest 12-month period recorded 85 fewer mapped vehicle-crime records than the previous 12 months, a decrease of 8.7%.
Three-year historical context
Across the available 36 months, 2,754 mapped records were counted. The highest monthly total was 135 in March 2025.
Comparison with other NI councils
Belfast ranked 1 out of 11 councils by the number of mapped records during the latest 12 months. Its share of Northern Ireland's mapped records was 41.3%. This is a comparison of recorded totals, not a population-adjusted measure of crime risk.
Source: PureCar analysis of Police.uk vehicle-crime mapped records. Reported locations are approximate. Official PSNI vehicle-theft offence figures are a separate dataset and are not added to these mapped-record totals.
LOCAL MAP
Explore approximate crime locations
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Approximate anonymised police locations
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THREE-YEAR HISTORY