Duncairn
WardNorth east Belfast. About 10,745 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 9.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Duncairn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Duncairn compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Duncairn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Duncairn at a rate of 301.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 128.5 per 1,000 people across Belfast.
Across Northern Ireland as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 70.2 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 297 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Duncairn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (854), violence and sexual offences (848) and other crime (363).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Belfast
These figures are published for the whole of Belfast, not for each ward, so they describe all of Belfast and not Duncairn alone. See Belfast
Duncairn in brief
Duncairn had 8,540 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Duncairn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Duncairn, 88.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
73.1% of residents in Duncairn were aged 15 to 64 at the census.