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Coleraine
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Coleraine population

25,681people · latest estimate

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

Coleraine has a population of 25,681, making it the largest place in Causeway Coast and Glens. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 25,681, a rise of 0.0% since.

25,681
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: Causeway Coast and Glens population trends, 2001–2024.

Coleraine in context

39 km
south-east to Ballymena, the nearest larger town
42,236
people live within 10 km
#504
largest of 6,358 UK places
Coleraine 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
Coleraine settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Coleraine
24,560Census 2021
Coleraine (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
25,681GeoNames

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. 10,622 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 Coleraine?
The populated place itself holds 25,681 residents. The wider Causeway Coast and Glens council area recorded 141,954 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
Causeway Coast and Glens, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Causeway Coast and Glens

#PlacePopulation
1Limavady11,279
2Ballymoney9,625
3Portstewart8,394
4Portrush6,684

All 17 places in Causeway Coast and Glens →