Crime in Ballymena: Live PSNI Data
Live crime figures for Ballymena 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 Ballymena compares with other Northern Ireland towns. Check your own street with the postcode search below.
Latest published month of official PSNI data: August 2026.
Ballymena, the full report
Recorded incidents within 1 mile of Ballymena town centre. Latest published month: August 2026.
Latest month
267August 2026
12 reported months
2,620September 2025 to August 2026
Same month last year
+4263 to 267 incidents, 2% 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 267 crimes within 1 mile of Ballymena centre (Mid & East Antrim district), 2% higher than the same month last year. Over the last 12 reported months the same measure totals 2,620 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 Ballymena
All crime Security-related · 1-mile radius of Ballymena centre
Within 1 mile of Ballymena 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 | 267 | 154 |
| Jul 2026 | 306 | 159 |
| Jun 2026 | 259 | 134 |
| May 2026 | 222 | 119 |
| Apr 2026 | 201 | 101 |
| Mar 2026 | 210 | 104 |
| Feb 2026 | 205 | 97 |
| Jan 2026 | 167 | 82 |
| Dec 2025 | 183 | 93 |
| Nov 2025 | 206 | 108 |
| Oct 2025 | 195 | 89 |
| Sep 2025 | 199 | 96 |
*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 Ballymena 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 Ballymena town centre.
View most-reported locations
Most-reported locations, August 2026
- Chichester Park East17
- Galgorm Street12
- High Street11
- James Street8
- Ballymoney Street8
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 Ballymena town centre. August 2026. Source: PSNI via data.police.uk. Methodology.
How does Ballymena compare?
Compare recorded incident counts in equally sized town-centre search areas.
Compare two towns (August 2026, same 1-mile centre measure)
Ballymena
- Violence & Sexual Offences 92
- Anti-Social Behaviour 73
- Criminal Damage & Arson 35
- Shoplifting 27
Antrim
- Anti-Social Behaviour 55
- Violence & Sexual Offences 46
- Criminal Damage & Arson 11
- Drugs 11
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 Ballymena: the official record
Across all of Ballymena (11 electoral wards, not just the town centre), police recorded 2,566 crimes in 2025/26, up 3.2% on 2024/25 and up 15.6% compared with 2015/16.
Whole-town figures sum the official police recorded crime tables for the electoral wards covering Ballymena, published by NISRA. The council-area picture below gives the wider context.
View wider council context: Mid and East Antrim
Police recorded 5,864 crimes in Mid and East Antrim in 2025/26, down 0.3% on 2024/25 and up 5.5% compared with 2015/16. That is 6.3% of all crime recorded in Northern Ireland that year.
| Offence group | 2025/26 | vs 2024/25 | vs 5 years ago |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary residential | 134 | +19.6% | -35.9% |
| Burglary business & community | 58 | -9.4% | -14.7% |
| Vehicle offences | 93 | -13.1% | -19.1% |
| Robbery | 11 | -26.7% | -52.2% |
| Criminal damage | 888 | -1.6% | -24.5% |
Anti-social behaviour
2,765 incidents in Mid and East Antrim in 2025/26, up 2.3% 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 Mid and East Antrim surveyed in 2023/24 by the Northern Ireland Safe Community Telephone Survey:
in line with the NI average
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 Ballymena neighbourhood policing team. Telephone 101 · MidandEastAntrim@psni.pnn.police.uk · psni.police.uk. In an emergency always call 999; use 101 for non-emergencies.
Crime data for Ballymena, 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 Ballymena, 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.
Where do these Ballymena crime numbers come from and how current are they?
They come from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, published through the UK Police open-data API at data.police.uk. We count exactly what PSNI publishes and we do not model or adjust it. PSNI releases roughly six weeks in arrears, so the most recent month on this page is August 2026 with 267 crimes recorded near Ballymena centre. Our systems check daily and refresh when a new month appears, and our data notes record the lag and the rest of the small print.
What does the biggest security-related category near Ballymena change?
It changes where the money goes first. Violence and sexual offences accounted for 92 of the 267 crimes recorded inside the one-mile circle, within a security-related subtotal of 154. Practically, a camera does not stop an assault, but clear footage is what officers ask for afterwards. We would rather put the right camera in the right place than add cameras, and the free survey is where that gets settled against your own layout.
Does where Ballymena sits among the towns tracked here mean I need more cameras?
No. The band compares the 267 crimes recorded near Ballymena 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. Our CCTV Installation Ballymena page covers what that looks like locally.
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.