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Strabane population

14,198people · latest estimate

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

Strabane has a population of 14,198, making it the 3rd largest place in Derry City and Strabane. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 14,198, a rise of 0.0% since.

14,198
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: Derry City and Strabane population trends, 2001–2024.

Strabane in context

22 km
north-east to Londonderry County Borough, the nearest larger town
17,293
people live within 10 km
#933
largest of 6,358 UK places
Strabane 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
Strabane settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Strabane
13,456Census 2021
Strabane (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
14,198GeoNames

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. 5,535 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 Strabane?
The populated place itself holds 14,198 residents. The wider Derry City and Strabane council area recorded 152,383 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
Derry City and Strabane, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Derry City and Strabane

#PlacePopulation
1Londonderry County Borough87,153
2Derry83,652
3Eglinton3,818
4Culmore3,645
5New Buildings3,381
6Castlederg2,822

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