Merok
WardSouth east Belfast. About 5,028 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 80% of people in Merok live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Merok compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Merok safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Merok at a rate of 52.0 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, 25 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Merok.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (79), anti-social behaviour (75) and shoplifting (46).
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 Merok alone. See Belfast
Merok in brief
Merok had 5,509 usual residents at the census.
About 80% of people in Merok live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Merok, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
63.8% of residents in Merok were aged 15 to 64 at the census.