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The average domestic rates bill is £1,244 a year. Population 11,729: a town in Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland.
What it saves you on housing, it gives back elsewhere. Its schools fall short: GCSE results beat 3% of Northern Ireland towns. Overall, Limavady earns a C−, which places it #63 of 63 in Northern Ireland. That leaves it better than just over a fifth of UK towns. Housing is within reach: the median home sold for £166,500, 3.3 years of area income. Health outcomes fall short of most towns (D−): men here can expect to live to 76.7, women to 80.6.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry (LPS), 2022 to 2024 at early-2025 prices · life expectancy, ONS.
This town's Cost Grade uses house prices and the domestic rates bill: Northern Ireland has no council tax, and no rents are published for its council areas. This town's Health Grade uses NISRA's life expectancy for its district electoral area (2022 to 2024) and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. Healthy life expectancy and the early-death and hospital measures English towns use aren't published for small areas in Northern Ireland. This town's School Grade uses GCSE results at the post-primary schools its children travel to, grammar and non-grammar, compared with schools across Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland publishes no primary school results. Northern Ireland has no Jobs Grade (no small-area income, claimant or job-access data is published) and no Hazards Grade (its flood maps aren't open data).
The 3 things Limavady does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Northern Ireland), ordered by how far Limavady is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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The Historic Environment Division lists 26 buildings inside Limavady’s settlement, 2 of them in the second grade.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Limavady.
55% of households own their home, lower than both Causeway Coast and Glens’ towns (58%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (59%). No town in Causeway Coast and Glens costs less to buy into than Limavady, at £166,500, the lowest of 7. Social renters account for just over a fifth of households.
NISRA / Land & Property Services ward sale prices and domestic rates · NISRA Census 2021 tenure · OGL · The figure is NISRA’s median sale price for the wards around Limavady, 2022 to 2024, brought to early-2025 prices and weighted by sales.
Some 3,660 pupils attend Limavady’s four primaries and three secondaries. Two of its 9 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Termoncanice Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 507 | – |
| Limavady Grammar SchoolLargest post-primary schoolPost-primary | Post-primary | 863 | C |
Disability touches 30% of Limavady’s population. Its share in bad or very bad health, 10%, is the highest of the 7 towns in Causeway Coast and Glens. 73% of the town’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, below both Causeway Coast and Glens’ towns (76%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (77%).
| Census 2021 | Limavady | Causeway Coast and Glens | Northern Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 73% | 76% | 77% |
| Bad or very bad health | 10% | 8.4% | 8.7% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 30% | 28% | 26% |
NISRA Census 2021, general health and disability · NISRA life expectancy by district electoral area, 2022–24 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like life expectancy.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 14% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
88% of commuters drove, above Causeway Coast and Glens’ towns (84%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (79%) alike. Of the commuters living in Limavady, 32% work in the town itself. For every resident in work, Limavady has 1 jobs.
NISRA Census 2021, method of travel to work · OGL
Homes see 11.9 burglaries and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year. The Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded 853 crimes inside Limavady’s settlement in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 351 reports of anti-social behaviour. Anti-social behaviour, shown but not graded, came to 30.5 reports per 1,000, above both Causeway Coast and Glens’ towns (22.9) and Northern Ireland’s towns (20.7). Of all the crimes, 44% were violence and sexual offences.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the NISRA settlement boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Grade B+ covers 2 of them. Relative to its size, Limavady keeps 22 listed buildings per 10,000 residents.
HED list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
People aged 15 to 24 make up 11% of the town. Line up the people of Limavady by age and the one in the middle is 42.8. Nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over, below Causeway Coast and Glens’ towns (20%) but above Northern Ireland’s towns (17%).
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Northern Ireland, 51% of residents are women.
| Limavady | Causeway Coast and Glens | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 19% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 23% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 20% | 17% |
| No qualifications | 30% | 26% | 25% |
| A levels or similar | 16% | 16% | 16% |
| Degree level | 25% | 30% | 32% |
NISRA Census 2021 · Causeway Coast and Glens and Northern Ireland: all residents of their settlements · Women and men: whole data zones, which approximate the town’s boundary · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Limavady. Best known first.
16 notable people were born in Limavady.
Ruth Kelly: Skuds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · William Massey: Harris & Ewing, Public domain · Ruaidhrí Higgins: Johnfullerton at English Wikipedia, Public domain · George Robinson: Northern Ireland Assembly, CC BY 3.0 · Niall O'Connor: Caroline Léna Becker, CC BY-SA 3.0
The nearest settlements, from NISRA’s 2015 boundaries. See them on the map →
Northern Ireland publishes no primary results. 3 post-primary schools are inside the town; places are handled by the Education Authority.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale in 2022 to 2024, at early-2025 prices, was £166,500, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. On cost of living it is the 20th most affordable of 63 Northern Ireland towns.
About the middle for its size: 51% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people report less crime per resident. Against all UK towns, most of them smaller, it grades C.
Northern Ireland has no council tax: homes pay domestic rates, set on the home’s capital value, and the rates also pay for water. The average bill in Causeway Coast and Glens is about £1,244 a year for 2026–27, against England’s average council tax per home of £1,868. Your own bill depends on your home’s value; check it with Land & Property Services on nidirect.
Town in Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
Limavady is a settlement of 11,729 people, in the Causeway Coast and Glens council area. TownRatings uses NISRA’s settlements (the 2015 Settlement Development Limits) as Northern Ireland’s towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from NISRA geography and Census 2021
Sources: NISRA Census 2021, data zones best-fitted to the NISRA Settlement Development Limits 2015 (settlement totals from NISRA where it publishes them) · NISRA / Land & Property Services verified residential sales by ward, 2005 to 2024, new and existing dwellings (medians; the 2022 to 2024 headline brought to early-2025 prices with the LPS house price index, which runs to 2026) · Land & Property Services domestic rates paid by council, 2025-26, and Department of Finance rate poundages 2026-27 · data.police.uk street-level crime (Police Service of Northern Ireland), 36 months to August 2026, points inside the settlement boundary · NISRA life expectancy by district electoral area (2022 to 2024) and NISRA Census 2021 general health and disability, adjusted for age · ONS gross disposable household income by council (2022), scaled to household income on England and Wales’s councils · Department of Education examination performance at post-primary schools 2024/25 and school-level enrolment data 2025/26 · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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