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Antrim population

19,661people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Antrim has a population of 19,661, making it the 2nd largest place in Antrim and Newtownabbey. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 19,661, a rise of 0.0% since.

19,661
in 2005
+0.0%
since 2005
The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Antrim and Newtownabbey population trends, 2001–2024.

Antrim in context

17 km
north to Ballymena, the nearest larger town
29,595
people live within 10 km
#662
largest of 6,358 UK places
Antrim in the UK

Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.

The population, measured on a real boundary

What you meanPopulationSource
Antrim settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Antrim
25,464Census 2021
Antrim (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
19,661GeoNames

The census figure is NISRA's Census 2021 count of usual residents inside the settlement's development limit: a boundary drawn in 2014–15 holding 2021 people, so growth at the edges since then sits outside it. 10,766 households. Where the rows disagree, quote the census. Northern Ireland's other layers wait on data that is either licensed (postcodes) or published only at district level (crime), and those absences are deliberate.

Common questions

What is the population of Antrim?
The populated place itself holds 19,661 residents. The wider Antrim and Newtownabbey council area recorded 148,100 in 2024. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Antrim and Newtownabbey, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Antrim and Newtownabbey

#PlacePopulation
1Newtownabbey63,860
2Ballyclare9,472
3Jordanstown5,494
4Randalstown5,378
5Crumlin5,149

All 9 places in Antrim and Newtownabbey →