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Dungannon population

11,935people · latest estimate

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

Dungannon has a population of 11,935, making it the largest place in Mid Ulster. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 11,935, a rise of 0.0% since.

11,935
in 2005
+0.0%
since 2005
#1
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.

Dungannon in context

18 km
south to Armagh, the nearest larger town
19,492
people live within 10 km
#1,079
largest of 6,358 UK places
Dungannon 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
Dungannon settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Dungannon
16,361Census 2021
Dungannon (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
11,935GeoNames

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. 6,018 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 Dungannon?
The populated place itself holds 11,935 residents. The wider Mid Ulster council area recorded 152,718 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.

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

Nearby in Mid Ulster

#PlacePopulation
1Cookstown11,081
2Magherafelt9,157
3Coalisland6,323
4Maghera4,085

All 12 places in Mid Ulster →