Crime in Lurgan: Live PSNI Data
Live crime figures for Lurgan town centre, updated monthly from official PSNI data. See what was recorded within a mile of the centre, the 12-month trend, an incident map, the official 10-year picture for the council area and how Lurgan compares with other Northern Ireland towns. Check your own street with the postcode search below.
Latest published month of official PSNI data: August 2026.
Lurgan, the full report
Recorded incidents within 1 mile of Lurgan town centre. Latest published month: August 2026.
Latest month
228August 2026
12 reported months
2,491September 2025 to August 2026
Same month last year
+34194 to 228 incidents, 18% higher. August 2025 to August 2026.
These are recorded incident counts, not population-adjusted rates or a prediction of an individual property’s risk.
About these figures
In August 2026, PSNI recorded 228 crimes within 1 mile of Lurgan centre (Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon district), 18% higher than the same month last year. Over the last 12 reported months the same measure totals 2,491 incidents.
Source: Police Service of Northern Ireland via data.police.uk (UK Police API), data to August 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Locations are anonymised map points; a small number of crimes without usable locations are excluded. Figures describe a fixed 1-mile radius around the town centre, not council or town boundaries, see our methodology.
The postcode search above uses its own selected location and period. Choose a period, then press Search. It does not change the fixed town report below.
What was recorded?
Crime Breakdown
Categories reported in August 2026. Security-relevant categories, the ones the right CCTV, alarm and access control can help with, are highlighted.
Gold edge = security-relevant. Muted bars are categories a physical security system rarely affects.
Source: Police Service of Northern Ireland via data.police.uk (UK Police API), data to August 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Locations are anonymised map points; a small number of crimes without usable locations are excluded. Figures describe a fixed 1-mile radius around the town centre, not council or town boundaries, see our methodology.
Is the picture changing?
The last 12 reported months, using the same 1-mile town-centre measure.
12-month trend for Lurgan
All crime Security-related · 1-mile radius of Lurgan centre
Within 1 mile of Lurgan town centre. September 2025 to August 2026. Source: PSNI via data.police.uk. Methodology.
View all monthly figures
| Month | All crime (1-mile radius) | Security-related* |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 228 | 113 |
| Jul 2026 | 280 | 133 |
| Jun 2026 | 207 | 101 |
| May 2026 | 279 | 144 |
| Apr 2026 | 204 | 99 |
| Mar 2026 | 230 | 114 |
| Feb 2026 | 173 | 96 |
| Jan 2026 | 198 | 85 |
| Dec 2025 | 162 | 82 |
| Nov 2025 | 142 | 72 |
| Oct 2025 | 173 | 90 |
| Sep 2025 | 215 | 112 |
*Security-related groups the categories a physical security system can influence: burglary, vehicle crime, robbery, theft from the person, other theft, criminal damage & arson, possession of weapons, and violence & sexual offences.
Explore trends by crime type
Compare crime types, last 12 months
Tick a category to add its line. Counts are incidents within 1 mile of the town centre per month, PSNI data.
Within 1 mile of Lurgan town centre. September 2025 to August 2026. Source: PSNI via data.police.uk. Methodology.
Explore recorded locations
Incident map, August 2026. Within 1 mile of Lurgan town centre.
View most-reported locations
Most-reported locations, August 2026
- Church Place11
- William Street9
- Ennis Tarry8
- Castle Lane7
- Queen Street6
Counts of PSNI's anonymised "on or near" map points, which group nearby incidents to protect privacy. High counts often reflect busy public places rather than dangerous streets.
Within 1 mile of Lurgan town centre. August 2026. Source: PSNI via data.police.uk. Methodology.
How does Lurgan compare?
Compare recorded incident counts in equally sized town-centre search areas.
Compare two towns (August 2026, same 1-mile centre measure)
Lurgan
- Anti-Social Behaviour 95
- Violence & Sexual Offences 64
- Criminal Damage & Arson 27
- Other Theft 13
Portadown
- Anti-Social Behaviour 79
- Violence & Sexual Offences 43
- Criminal Damage & Arson 14
- Public Order 9
Both figures use the identical 1-mile town-centre measure, so this comparison is like-for-like. Bigger towns naturally record more incidents.
This monthly figure places it among the HIGHER third of the 51 Northern Ireland towns with published data for that month, on the same one mile measure.
These are counts within 1-mile circles, not population-adjusted crime rates or a ranking of personal safety.
Same 1-mile centre measure for each selected town. August 2026. Source: PSNI via data.police.uk. Methodology.
The longer-term picture
Annual figures use whole-town electoral wards and the wider council area. They are separate from the monthly 1-mile report above.
The whole of Lurgan: the official record
Across all of Lurgan (8 electoral wards, not just the town centre), police recorded 2,275 crimes in 2025/26, down 6.2% on 2024/25 and down 14.5% compared with 2015/16.
Whole-town figures sum the official police recorded crime tables for the electoral wards covering Lurgan, published by NISRA. The council-area picture below gives the wider context.
View wider council context: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
Police recorded 8,742 crimes in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon in 2025/26, down 2.9% on 2024/25 and down 13.1% compared with 2015/16. That is 9.3% of all crime recorded in Northern Ireland that year.
| Offence group | 2025/26 | vs 2024/25 | vs 5 years ago |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary residential | 179 | -20.4% | -36.1% |
| Burglary business & community | 77 | +51.0% | -1.3% |
| Vehicle offences | 175 | -5.9% | -17.8% |
| Robbery | 25 | +4.2% | -37.5% |
| Criminal damage | 1,312 | -9.4% | -26.9% |
Anti-social behaviour
4,875 incidents in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon in 2025/26, down 2.2% on 2024/25.
The annual council series uses burglary, vehicle offences, robbery and criminal damage groupings. The monthly town-centre security-related subtotal uses a broader set of categories. These definitions differ, so do not compare the two subtotals as the same measure.
Financial-year totals of crimes recorded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, published on the NISRA data portal. Recorded crime counts depend on reporting and recording practice and the offence classification changed in 2017/18, so long-run comparisons are indicative. Contains public sector information from NISRA and PSNI licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
How safe do residents say they feel?
How safe do people say they feel?
Residents of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon surveyed in 2023/24 by the Northern Ireland Safe Community Telephone Survey:
above the NI average of 8%
above the NI average of 5%
Worry and reality often differ: compare these figures with the recorded trend above. Survey moved to telephone interviewing in 2020/21, so comparisons with earlier years are indicative.
Financial-year totals of crimes recorded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, published on the NISRA data portal. Recorded crime counts depend on reporting and recording practice and the offence classification changed in 2017/18, so long-run comparisons are indicative. Contains public sector information from NISRA and PSNI licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Your local policing team
This area is covered by the PSNI Lurgan neighbourhood policing team. Telephone 101 · ArmaghCityBanbridgeandCraigavon@psni.pnn.police.uk · psni.police.uk. In an emergency always call 999; use 101 for non-emergencies.
Crime data for Lurgan, your questions
Sources, geography and limitations
Source: Police Service of Northern Ireland via data.police.uk (UK Police API), data to August 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Locations are anonymised map points; a small number of crimes without usable locations are excluded. Figures describe a fixed 1-mile radius around the town centre, not council or town boundaries, see our methodology.
Whole-town figures sum the official police recorded crime tables for the electoral wards covering Lurgan, published by NISRA. Council figures cover the whole council area. Both are financial-year totals, separate from the monthly 1-mile measure.
The annual council series uses burglary, vehicle offences, robbery and criminal damage groupings. The monthly town-centre security-related subtotal uses a broader set of categories. These definitions differ, so do not compare the two subtotals as the same measure.
Why does Lurgan show fewer crimes here than the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon district total?
The two numbers measure different ground. The count of 228 covers one month, August 2026, inside a one-mile circle drawn on Lurgan town centre. The 8,742 is every crime PSNI recorded across the whole Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon district in 2025/26, an area covering several towns and a lot of open country. Neither is wrong and neither replaces the other. Our method notes explain why we never divide one by the other to make a rate.
Can a camera do anything about the biggest category in the Lurgan breakdown?
Honestly, not much on its own, which is why we do not count it in the security-related group. Anti-social behaviour made up 95 of the 228 crimes recorded near Lurgan centre that month. The 113 we do count as security-related are the ones a system can be designed against: violence and sexual offences, criminal damage and arson, other theft, burglary. For everything else a camera provides a dated record of what happened and where, which is what police and insurers ask for, rather than prevention.
Does where Lurgan sits among the towns tracked here mean I need more cameras?
No. The band compares the 228 crimes recorded near Lurgan centre in August 2026 against the other 50 towns on the same one-mile measure, and it is context, not a specification. More cameras are rarely the answer to a higher count. The right ones, positioned where an intruder has to pass and specified to give a usable image after dark, almost always are. Advanced Overwatch is SSAIB certificated (NIRE127) specifically for Intruder Alarm Systems, Visual Surveillance Systems (VSS) and Access Control Systems. Surveys are free.
Discuss security systems for your property
A survey considers your premises, access and existing systems. Local crime figures provide context; they do not decide what your property needs.