Newry, Mourne and Down council area. Every figure carries its own date.
What the recorded figures show, and what they cannot tell us.
Recorded crime and population
A larger population can mean more recorded offences even when the number of offences per resident falls. Read the total and the rate together.
A checked recorded-crime total and matching population rate for this exact council area are not available in this collection yet. The local mapped records below remain a separate measure.
Can we test the population theory over 30 years?
Only where the offence definitions, recording practices and area boundaries are comparable. Changes in reporting, police recording and the types of crime matter too. We do not join incompatible series or invent missing years.
PSNI national long-run index verified; district workbook/coverage not verified. No mapped Police.uk substitute.
A comparable 30-year crime-and-population trend has not been established for this area.
For example, if offences rose by 10% while population rose by 20%, offences per resident would fall by about 8%. This is an illustration, not a finding about this area.
People commuting or visiting can also affect offences recorded in a place. The resident population is a useful common denominator, but does not count everyone present.
What could help? Follow the types and locations of repeated problems, check residents’ experiences, and assess the response. Area population totals do not identify who commits offences.
Police-recorded locations for Newry, Mourne and Down council area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
7,240 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 7,690 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
Newry, Mourne and Down council area · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 669 mapped crimes in September 2024; 615 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
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The line joins consecutive published observations.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · Newry, Mourne and Down
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
669
385
October 2024
672
442
November 2024
652
273
December 2024
635
285
January 2025
570
278
February 2025
512
267
March 2025
671
293
April 2025
628
357
May 2025
730
366
June 2025
562
291
July 2025
702
396
August 2025
687
378
September 2025
595
352
October 2025
621
380
November 2025
606
223
December 2025
625
269
January 2026
529
248
February 2026
537
250
March 2026
615
300
April 2026
629
374
May 2026
620
392
June 2026
592
325
July 2026
656
407
August 2026
615
338
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · Newry, Mourne and Down
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
3,268
criminal damage arson
1,191
shoplifting
633
drugs
629
other theft
533
burglary
287
other crime
250
vehicle crime
213
possession of weapons
108
public order
83
robbery
23
bicycle theft
12
theft from the person
10
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and records without usable locations are excluded.
Do not compare directly with Scottish council-level recorded crime totals.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for September 2024. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for March 2025. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for April 2025. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Publication history: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime data not provided for May 2025. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. Later update: Police Service of Northern Ireland: Crime Data refreshed from January - May 2025, January to December 2024 and August to December 2023.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
