Falls
WardCentral Belfast. About 5,457 people in 1.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Falls live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Falls compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Falls safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Falls at a rate of 212.1 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, 125 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Falls.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (402), anti-social behaviour (358) and criminal damage and arson (156).
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 Falls alone. See Belfast
Falls in brief
Falls had 6,017 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Falls live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Falls, 91.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
64.1% of residents in Falls were aged 15 to 64 at the census.