Population Statistics
Limavady
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Limavady population

11,279people · latest estimate

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

Limavady has a population of 11,279, making it the 2nd largest place in Causeway Coast and Glens. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 12,970, a fall of 13.0% since.

12,970
in 2005
-13.0%
since 2005

The other populations of Limavady

The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
11,279 GeoNames
The place in 2005
The same settlement twenty years earlier.
12,970 World Gazetteer (2005)

Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place

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.

Limavady in context

20 km
north-east to Coleraine, the nearest larger town
13,014
people live within 10 km
#1,145
largest of 6,358 UK places
Limavady 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
Limavady settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Limavady
11,697Census 2021
Limavady (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
11,279GeoNames

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. 5,084 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 Limavady?
The populated place itself holds 11,279 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
1Coleraine25,681
2Ballymoney9,625
3Portstewart8,394
4Portrush6,684
5Ballycastle5,566

All 17 places in Causeway Coast and Glens →