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Draperstown population

1,734people · latest estimate

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

Draperstown has a population of 1,734, making it the 7th largest place in Mid Ulster. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 1,734, a rise of 0.0% since.

1,734
in 2005
+0.0%
since 2005
#7
of 12 in Mid Ulster
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: Mid Ulster population trends, 2001–2024.

Draperstown in context

8 km
north-east to Maghera, the nearest larger town
5,819
people live within 10 km
#3,171
largest of 6,358 UK places
Draperstown 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
Draperstown settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Draperstown
1,848Census 2021
Draperstown (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
1,734GeoNames

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. 719 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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Population since 2001
Mid Ulster, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Mid Ulster

#PlacePopulation
1Coalisland6,323
2Maghera4,085
3Castledawson2,263
4Moneymore1,426
5Fivemiletown1,109
6Bellaghy1,072

All 12 places in Mid Ulster →