BT48 postcode area guide — Derry City and Strabane
House prices, crime, broadband speeds, mobile signal, schools and demographics for the BT48 postcode district in Derry City and Strabane — every official dataset on one page.
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Broadband & internet speeds in BT48
Excellent coverage
Superfast (30Mb+)
98%
Ultrafast (300Mb+)
90.5%
Gigabit-capable
90.5%
Below USO (10Mb)
0.1%
Broadband availability in the BT48 postcode district (Derry City and Strabane) is Excellent — gigabit-capable full fibre is widely available. Across the 1,112 postcodes Ofcom measures in BT48, superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s or faster) reaches 98% of premises and gigabit-capable lines are available to 90.5%.
Around 0.1% of premises in BT48 fall below the Universal Service Obligation (a minimum of 10 Mbit/s download and 1 Mbit/s upload), so the overwhelming majority of homes and businesses here can already order a decent fixed line. For a business that depends on its connection, the figures that matter most are gigabit and full-fibre availability — the symmetric, low-contention services we quote leased lines and FTTP against.
Sample postcodes in BT48
| Postcode | Superfast | Gigabit |
|---|---|---|
| BT48 0AA | 100% | 97.6% |
| BT48 0AB | 100% | 20% |
| BT48 0AD | 100% | 100% |
| BT48 0AE | 100% | 50% |
| BT48 0AF | 100% | 100% |
| BT48 0AG | 100% | 100% |
| BT48 0AH | 100% | 100% |
| BT48 0AJ | 100% | 100% |
| BT48 0AL | 100% | 68.1% |
| BT48 0AN | 100% | 66.7% |
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Mobile signal around Derry City and Strabane
Ofcom's coverage model for the wider Derry City And Strabane district (69,350 premises):
4G indoors — all networks
78.4%
4G outdoors — all networks
96.9%
5G outdoors — all networks
27.7%
Voice indoors — all networks
79.3%
Signal varies street by street — use the mobile coverage checker to compare EE, O2, Three and Vodafone at an exact postcode.
Crime in BT48
Police recorded 265 incidents within about a mile of the centre of BT48 in May 2026 (latest published street-level data). The breakdown:
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | 96 | 36.2% |
| Anti-social behaviour | 66 | 24.9% |
| Criminal damage & arson | 31 | 11.7% |
| Shoplifting | 20 | 7.5% |
| Other theft | 19 | 7.2% |
| Other crime | 11 | 4.2% |
| Drugs | 9 | 3.4% |
| Burglary | 5 | 1.9% |
Raw counts favour busy town centres — a high street with shops and nightlife records more incidents than a residential cul-de-sac. Source: police.uk open data (point sample around the district centroid).
Food hygiene ratings in BT48
554 rated food businesses operate in BT48. 366 hold the top rating of 5, 105 are rated 4, and 4 are rated 2 or below.
Among the 5-rated: 76tattoohouse/croicoffeehouse, 7Twenty Bar, Abbey B&B, Abbey House, Abercorn Bar.
Source: Food Standards Agency, food hygiene ratings (FHRS) open data.
Phone area codes for Derry City and Strabane
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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, police.uk street-level crime, Ofcom Connected Nations, ONS Census 2021, DfE Get Information about Schools, Food Standards Agency FHRS — all © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are area aggregates; individual addresses vary. Energy performance (EPC) data will be added when our Open Data Communities registration is approved.