Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Coalisland stands out for possession of weapons: 5.1 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence rose 20% in a year. Coalisland’s overall Safety Grade is C+: more crime per resident than 64% of UK towns, on crimes the Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded inside its settlement from September 2023 to August 2026. Violent crime here is higher than in 62% of UK towns; burglary, vehicle crime and damage, higher than in 66%. Police counts work out at 27.5 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Coalisland
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 20% more violent crime per resident in Coalisland than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 13% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Coalisland has the 327th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Moreton-in-Marsh, South Molton and Kimberley, higher than Werrington, Crofton and Galleywood. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Coalisland’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 646 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Coalisland 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, Coalisland runs highest on possession of weapons (2 per 1,000 against 0.4), drugs (5.1 per 1,000 against 1) and criminal damage & arson (9.9 per 1,000 against 4.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 157 | 28.7 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 105 | 19.2 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 54 | 9.9 | 4.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 28 | 5.1 | 1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 17 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 11 | 2 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 9 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 9 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 8 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 7 | 1.3 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 3.6 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Coalisland’s neighbourhoods rank in Northern Ireland
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Northern Ireland’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
Coalisland’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.
How crime in Coalisland has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data; England and Wales towns only).
Rolling twelve-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 +20% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +13% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -16% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -28% (towns its size +0%).
Of 518 towns its size, Coalisland is 327th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 107 | Maghera Mid Ulster | 4,235 | 17.9 | 6.7 | 3.5 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 324 | Werrington Staffordshire | 6,012 | 31.5 | 7.4 | 2.4 | C+ |
| 325 | Crofton West Yorkshire | 6,127 | 29.8 | 9.1 | 6.6 | C+ |
| 326 | Galleywood Essex | 6,410 | 26.9 | 12.1 | 7.8 | C+ |
| 327 | Coalisland Mid Ulster | 5,468 | 27.5 | 11.9 | 6.5 | C+ |
| 328 | Great Wakering Essex | 6,774 | 30.4 | 9.1 | 4.1 | C+ |
| 329 | Ackworth Moor Top West Yorkshire | 6,275 | 27.4 | 12.1 | 9.5 | C+ |
| 330 | Wem Shropshire | 6,287 | 29.4 | 10 | 7.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 518 | Stainforth South Yorkshire | 5,999 | 72.5 | 49.7 | 14.4 | 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 Coalisland, and others in Mid Ulster.
Crime in Coalisland 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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
No one died in a collision on Coalisland’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 34 collisions with injuries inside Coalisland in five years. 9 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Coalisland is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Coalisland’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 5 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Coalisland had 9.
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 Coalisland’s settlement, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Coalisland
Coalisland records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Dungannon, 3.7 miles away, records 27.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Coalisland’s 27.5.
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 Coalisland 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 Coalisland
Is Coalisland safe?
Police recorded 27.5 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Coalisland’s settlement). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 36% of UK towns. Among 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Coalisland is 327th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Coalisland?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 20%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 13%, shoplifting and theft fell 16% and anti-social behaviour fell 28%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Coalisland?
Violence & sexual offences: 157 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (54) and drugs (28), with 105 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Coalisland compare with Craigavon?
Craigavon records 30.9 violent and sexual offences and 12.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Coalisland’s 27.5 and 11.9, over the same three years.
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) · 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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