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Newry population

27,757people · latest estimate

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

Newry has a population of 27,757, making it the largest place in Newry Mourne and Down. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 27,757, a rise of 0.0% since.

27,757
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: Newry, Mourne and Down population trends, 2001–2024.

Newry is one of the UK's 76 official cities, ranked 67 of 76 by population.

Newry in context

28 km
north to Portadown, the nearest larger town
27,757
people live within 10 km
#469
largest of 6,358 UK places
Newry 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
Newry settlement
NISRA's settlement boundary: the built-up Newry
28,026Census 2021
Newry (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
27,757GeoNames

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. 11,065 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 Newry?
The populated place itself holds 27,757 residents. The wider Newry, Mourne and Down council area recorded 183,115 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
Newry, Mourne and Down, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Newry Mourne and Down

#PlacePopulation
1Downpatrick10,507
2Warrenpoint7,670
3Newcastle7,444
4Kilkeel6,447

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