Antrim and Newtownabbey · Northern Ireland
Newtownabbey population
63,860people · latest estimate
Newtownabbey has a population of 63,860, making it the largest place in Antrim and Newtownabbey. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 63,860, a rise of 0.0% since.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Antrim and Newtownabbey population trends, 2001–2024.
Newtownabbey has no city status, making it the 98th largest town in the UK.
Newtownabbey in context
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 mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Newtownabbey settlement NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Newtownabbey | 67,112 | Census 2021 |
| Newtownabbey (GeoNames record) the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated | 63,860 | GeoNames |
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. 28,410 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.
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Nearby in Antrim and Newtownabbey
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antrim | 19,661 |
| 2 | Ballyclare | 9,472 |
| 3 | Jordanstown | 5,494 |
| 4 | Randalstown | 5,378 |