Find your town in Ards and North Down
Ards and North Down has 6 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.
What Ards and North Down is like
The typical Ards and North Down 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.
4 of 6 (67%) grade A− or better, against 25% of UK towns.
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6 towns · ordered by Ards and North Down rank
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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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