Turf Lodge
WardWest Belfast. About 3,606 people in 2.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 66% of people in Turf Lodge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Turf Lodge compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Turf Lodge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Turf Lodge at a rate of 108.7 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, 33 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Turf Lodge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (146), anti-social behaviour (126) and other crime (42).
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 Turf Lodge alone. See Belfast
Turf Lodge in brief
Turf Lodge had 3,613 usual residents at the census.
About 66% of people in Turf Lodge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Turf Lodge, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
65.6% of residents in Turf Lodge were aged 15 to 64 at the census.