Population Statistics
Armagh

Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon · Northern Ireland

Armagh population

14,801people · latest estimate

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

Armagh has a population of 14,801, making it the 4th largest place in Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 14,801, a rise of 0.0% since.

14,801
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: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon population trends, 2001–2024.

Armagh is one of the UK's 76 official cities, ranked 72 of 76 by population.

Armagh in context

17 km
north-east to Portadown, the nearest larger town
14,801
people live within 10 km
#891
largest of 6,358 UK places
Armagh 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
Armagh settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Armagh
16,438Census 2021
Armagh (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
14,801GeoNames

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. 6,543 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 Armagh?
The populated place itself holds 14,801 residents. The wider Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon council area recorded 222,511 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
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon

#PlacePopulation
1Craigavon59,236
2Portadown32,926
3Banbridge16,173
4Dromore6,492
5Keady3,171
6Tandragee3,122

All 14 places in Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon →