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Crime · Carrickfergus
Reported crime in Carrickfergus
1,513 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 54 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
1,513
Rate / 1,000
54
Categories
14
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anti social behaviour | 517 | 34% |
| Violence and sexual offences | 487 | 32% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 159 | 11% |
| Shoplifting | 127 | 8% |
| Other theft | 85 | 6% |
| Drugs | 53 | 4% |
| Other crime | 35 | 2% |
| Burglary | 21 | 1% |
| Vehicle crime | 11 | 1% |
| Public order | 5 | 0% |
| Possession of weapons | 4 | 0% |
| Bicycle theft | 4 | 0% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0% |
| Theft from the person | 2 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti social behaviour | 52 | 59 | 24 | 39 | 41 | 32 | 46 | 42 | 55 | 27 | 61 | 39 | 517 |
| Violence and sexual offences | 35 | 30 | 38 | 58 | 37 | 44 | 41 | 38 | 30 | 45 | 48 | 43 | 487 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 4 | 23 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 159 |
| Shoplifting | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 127 |
| Other theft | 6 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 85 |
| Drugs | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 53 |
| Other crime | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 35 |
| Burglary | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 21 | |||
| Vehicle crime | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |||||
| Public order | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| Possession of weapons | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Robbery | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Theft from the person | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Total | 114 | 142 | 85 | 126 | 128 | 115 | 139 | 131 | 124 | 119 | 159 | 131 | 1513 |
FewerMore
police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (Super Data Zones, each crime placed by its nearest postcode) covering Carrickfergus, Sept 2025 to Aug 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 28,142.