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Find your town in Antrim and Newtownabbey

Antrim and Newtownabbey has 5 towns of 2,500 or more. Towns are graded against UK towns on cost of living, safety, schools, health and walkability; Northern Ireland has no Jobs or Flood risk grade.

5graded towns
1grade A− or better
114,572people
Metropolitan Newtownabbeylargest · 67,599
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Antrim and Newtownabbey at a glance

What Antrim and Newtownabbey is like

The typical Antrim and Newtownabbey town grades highest on cost of living and safety against towns across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and lowest on health. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.

The typical town, subject by subjectThe median Antrim and Newtownabbey town against UK towns · the line marks the typical UK town
How Antrim and Newtownabbey’s towns grade overall5 graded towns
A1B4

1 of 5 (20%) grade A− or better, against 25% of UK towns.

Every town ranked by scoreThe full Antrim and Newtownabbey list, with what drives each gradeCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subject
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5 towns · ordered by Antrim and Newtownabbey rank

A

Crumlin

Town · 5,366 people · #151 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestA+Cost of livingA+SchoolsLowestC−Walkability
B+

Metropolitan Newtownabbey

Large town · 67,599 people · #587 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestA+Cost of livingBSafetyLowestC−Health
B+

Randalstown

Town · 5,151 people · #637 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestA+Cost of livingBSafetyLowestCHealth
B

Ballyclare

Town · 10,850 people · #744 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestA+Cost of livingA−SafetyLowestC−Schools
B−

Antrim

Large town · 25,606 people · #1,119 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestA+Cost of livingBWalkabilityLowestDHealth

Photos: 0: Brian Shaw · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 1: John Pollock · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 2: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 4: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0

Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · NISRA Census 2021, data zones best-fitted to the NISRA Settlement Development Limits 2015 (settlement totals from NISRA where it publishes them). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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