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Ballygowan population

2,832people · latest estimate

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

Ballygowan has a population of 2,832, making it the 6th largest place in Ards and North Down. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 2,832, a rise of 0.0% since.

2,832
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: Ards and North Down population trends, 2001–2024.

Ballygowan in context

5 km
south-west to Saintfield, the nearest larger town
79,826
people live within 10 km
#2,503
largest of 6,358 UK places
Ballygowan 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
Ballygowan settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Ballygowan
3,083Census 2021
Ballygowan (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
2,832GeoNames

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. 1,228 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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Population since 2001
Ards and North Down, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Ards and North Down

#PlacePopulation
1Holywood13,109
2Comber9,190
3Donaghadee7,369
4Portaferry2,525
5Millisle1,914
6Portavogie1,639

All 12 places in Ards and North Down →