Find your town in the Belfast council area
The Belfast council area has 2 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.
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2 towns · ordered by Belfast rank
With fewer than 5 graded towns, Belfast has no county ranking; each town’s grade still compares it with all UK towns.
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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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