Mid and East Antrim · Northern Ireland
Ballymena population
28,932people · latest estimate
Ballymena has a population of 28,932, making it the 2nd largest place in Mid and East Antrim. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 28,932, a rise of 0.0% since.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Mid and East Antrim population trends, 2001–2024.
Ballymena in context
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 mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ballymena settlement NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Ballymena | 31,308 | Census 2021 |
| Ballymena (GeoNames record) the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated | 28,932 | GeoNames |
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. 13,287 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.
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Nearby in Mid and East Antrim
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carrickfergus | 29,208 |
| 2 | Larne | 18,421 |
| 3 | Greenisland | 5,073 |
| 4 | Whitehead | 3,697 |
| 5 | Ahoghill | 3,633 |