Crime in Newtownards: Live PSNI Data
Live crime figures for Newtownards 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 Newtownards compares with other Northern Ireland towns. Check your own street with the postcode search below.
Latest published month of official PSNI data: August 2026.
Newtownards, the full report
Recorded incidents within 1 mile of Newtownards town centre. Latest published month: August 2026.
Latest month
188August 2026
12 reported months
2,029September 2025 to August 2026
Same month last year
+36152 to 188 incidents, 24% 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 188 crimes within 1 mile of Newtownards centre (Ards & North Down district), 24% higher than the same month last year. Over the last 12 reported months the same measure totals 2,029 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 Newtownards
All crime Security-related · 1-mile radius of Newtownards centre
Within 1 mile of Newtownards 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 | 188 | 97 |
| Jul 2026 | 193 | 107 |
| Jun 2026 | 162 | 93 |
| May 2026 | 173 | 83 |
| Apr 2026 | 174 | 109 |
| Mar 2026 | 179 | 105 |
| Feb 2026 | 156 | 91 |
| Jan 2026 | 161 | 80 |
| Dec 2025 | 139 | 76 |
| Nov 2025 | 156 | 80 |
| Oct 2025 | 162 | 91 |
| Sep 2025 | 186 | 86 |
*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 Newtownards 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 Newtownards town centre.
View most-reported locations
Most-reported locations, August 2026
- Regent Street12
- Mill Street10
- John Street8
- East Street5
- Frances Street5
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 Newtownards town centre. August 2026. Source: PSNI via data.police.uk. Methodology.
How does Newtownards compare?
Compare recorded incident counts in equally sized town-centre search areas.
Compare two towns (August 2026, same 1-mile centre measure)
Newtownards
- Anti-Social Behaviour 67
- Violence & Sexual Offences 60
- Criminal Damage & Arson 23
- Drugs 12
Bangor
- Anti-Social Behaviour 71
- Violence & Sexual Offences 48
- Criminal Damage & Arson 11
- Other Theft 5
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 Newtownards: the official record
Across all of Newtownards (8 electoral wards, not just the town centre), police recorded 1,713 crimes in 2025/26, up 3.9% on 2024/25 and up 2.1% compared with 2015/16.
Whole-town figures sum the official police recorded crime tables for the electoral wards covering Newtownards, published by NISRA. The council-area picture below gives the wider context.
View wider council context: Ards and North Down
Police recorded 5,621 crimes in Ards and North Down in 2025/26, up 0.9% on 2024/25 and down 10.1% compared with 2015/16. That is 6.0% of all crime recorded in Northern Ireland that year.
| Offence group | 2025/26 | vs 2024/25 | vs 5 years ago |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary residential | 78 | +2.6% | -48.3% |
| Burglary business & community | 29 | +26.1% | -34.1% |
| Vehicle offences | 67 | -24.7% | -46.0% |
| Robbery | 11 | +57.1% | -45.0% |
| Criminal damage | 797 | -8.7% | -23.4% |
Anti-social behaviour
3,091 incidents in Ards and North Down in 2025/26, down 2.1% 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 Ards and North Down surveyed in 2023/24 by the Northern Ireland Safe Community Telephone Survey:
below the NI average of 8%
below 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 Newtownards neighbourhood policing team. Telephone 101 · ArdsandNorthDown@psni.pnn.police.uk · psni.police.uk. In an emergency always call 999; use 101 for non-emergencies.
Crime data for Newtownards, 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 Newtownards, 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 Newtownards show fewer crimes here than the Ards and North Down district total?
The two numbers measure different ground. The count of 188 covers one month, August 2026, inside a one-mile circle drawn on Newtownards town centre. The 5,621 is every crime PSNI recorded across the whole Ards and North Down 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.
How should I read the burglary figure for Newtownards?
It is worth reading in proportion. Burglary was 4 of the 188 crimes recorded inside the one-mile circle that month, and 97 of them fell in the security-related group as a whole. Burglary is the category a monitored intruder alarm and a camera covering the approach are built for, so a small number does not make an alarm pointless. It makes the design question a practical one: which doors, which approach, and what happens when the alarm activates. Our survey looks at the property rather than the statistic.
What does the whole-town record say about Newtownards over the longer term?
Across all of Newtownards, the official series recorded 1,713 crimes in 2025/26, up 3.9% on 2024/25 and up 2.1% against 2015/16. That is the long view for the whole town, while the one-mile centre count above, 188 crimes in August 2026, is the short view for the middle of it. Reading both is more useful than either on its own. We have been designing and installing systems in Northern Ireland since 2017, and the site survey costs nothing. Our CCTV Installation Newtownards 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.