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Fermanagh and Omagh · Northern Ireland

Omagh population

21,056people · latest estimate

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

Omagh has a population of 21,056, making it the largest place in Fermanagh and Omagh. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 21,056, a rise of 0.0% since.

21,056
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: Fermanagh and Omagh population trends, 2001–2024.

Omagh in context

44 km
north to Londonderry County Borough, the nearest larger town
21,056
people live within 10 km
#609
largest of 6,358 UK places
Omagh 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
Omagh Town settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Omagh
20,353Census 2021
Omagh (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
21,056GeoNames

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. 8,721 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 Omagh?
The populated place itself holds 21,056 residents. The wider Fermanagh and Omagh council area recorded 117,687 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
Fermanagh and Omagh, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Fermanagh and Omagh

#PlacePopulation
1Enniskillen14,472
2Dromore5,641
3Lisnaskea2,895
4Irvinestown1,765

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