Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Enniskillen records drugs at 4.8 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence rose 5% in a year. Its letter overall is C−: more crime per resident than 76% of UK towns, from crimes the Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded inside its settlement through September 2023 to August 2026. It has more violent crime than 74% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 78%. Violence and property crime split as 33.3 violent and sexual offences and 14.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Enniskillen
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% more violent crime per resident in Enniskillen than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 14% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Enniskillen has the 227th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Nantwich, New Ollerton and Ollerton and Chepstow, higher than Stoke Gifford, Wymondham and Brockworth. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
53% of Enniskillen’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of Northern Ireland (NIMDM 2017, crime and disorder), and 0% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Enniskillen’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 2,010 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Enniskillen against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Enniskillen runs highest on drugs (9.3 per 1,000 against 1.9), anti-social behaviour (32.5 per 1,000 against 12.4) and criminal damage & arson (9.4 per 1,000 against 6.2). Burglary and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 458 | 32.5 | 12.4 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 426 | 30.2 | 30.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 132 | 9.4 | 6.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 131 | 9.3 | 1.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 105 | 7.5 | 6.1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 57 | 4 | 4.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 27 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 22 | 1.6 | 2.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 19 | 1.3 | 2.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 10 | 0.7 | 5.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
53% of Enniskillen residents live in one of Northern Ireland’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Northern Ireland’s neighbourhoods, and 53% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime and disorder domain scores recorded crime, anti-social behaviour and deliberate fires where people live, on 2014–15 figures (NISRA’s latest edition), so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Enniskillen’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (Super Output Area, about 2,000 people) in the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017 (crime and disorder domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of Northern Ireland’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Crime in Enniskillen per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 12 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Enniskillen places 227th of 350 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 224 | Stoke Gifford Gloucestershire | 13,477 | 34.3 | 12.9 | 21.1 | C |
| 225 | Wymondham Norfolk | 16,334 | 38.3 | 9 | 10.1 | C |
| 226 | Brockworth Gloucestershire | 12,007 | 38.6 | 8.9 | 7.7 | C− |
| 227 | Enniskillen Fermanagh and Omagh | 14,086 | 33.3 | 14.3 | 13 | C− |
| 228 | Guisborough North Yorkshire | 18,091 | 31 | 16.6 | 20.8 | C− |
| 229 | Shepshed Leicestershire | 14,873 | 32.1 | 15.5 | 10.4 | C− |
| 230 | Newmarket Suffolk | 18,857 | 34.6 | 13.6 | 16.9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 350 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Enniskillen, and others in Fermanagh and Omagh.
Lowest recorded crime in Castlecoole, Rossorry and Erne; highest in Portora
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlecoole | 3,272 | 17.8 | 7.8 | |
| Rossorry | 1,879 | 20.8 | 11.4 | |
| Erne | 2,628 | 40 | 22.1 | |
| Lisnarrick | 1,640 | 60.2 | 22.6 | |
| Portora | 2,396 | 63.4 | 22.5 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Portora records 2× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Enniskillen.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Enniskillen’s settlement), September 2023 to August 2026.
How crime in Enniskillen has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data; England and Wales towns only).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +5% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -14% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -9% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -9% (towns its size -4%).
One person died in collisions on Enniskillen’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 181 collisions with injuries inside Enniskillen in five years, in which one person died. 25 people were killed or seriously injured: 7 on foot and 2 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Enniskillen’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Enniskillen’s own rate (1.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Enniskillen had 35.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured is as the Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded it: the Department for Transport’s adjustment, which evens out different ways of recording injuries, covers Great Britain’s forces only, and the towns its size are Great Britain’s. There’s no national rate here: more than three quarters of Northern Ireland’s road deaths (77%) happen outside every town’s settlement boundary. Source: PSNI police recorded injury road traffic collisions, 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Enniskillen’s settlement, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Enniskillen
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enniskillen | 14,086 | 33.3 | 14.3 | C− |
| Lisnaskea | 3,020 | 22.1 | 9.5 | B− |
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Enniskillen sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the settlement can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Enniskillen
Is Enniskillen safe?
Police recorded 33.3 violent and sexual offences and 14.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Enniskillen’s settlement). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 24% of UK towns. Among 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Enniskillen is 227th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Enniskillen?
By council ward, Castlecoole, Rossorry and Erne record the least violent and household crime per resident: 17.8, 20.8 and 40 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 63.4 in Portora.
Is crime going up in Enniskillen?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 14%, shoplifting and theft fell 9% and anti-social behaviour fell 9%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Enniskillen?
Violence & sexual offences: 426 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (132) and drugs (131), with 458 reports of anti-social behaviour.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime (Police Service of Northern Ireland), 36 months to August 2026, points inside the settlement boundary · NISRA Census 2021, data zones best-fitted to the NISRA Settlement Development Limits 2015 (settlement totals from NISRA where it publishes them) · OSNI ward boundaries (the 2014 wards), residents from NISRA Census 2021 data zones by area · NISRA Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017, crime and disorder domain by Super Output Area (residents from NISRA Census 2021 data zones by area) · PSNI police recorded injury road traffic collisions 2021–2025 (Open Data NI), points inside the settlement boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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