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The town, home to 14,086 people, lies in Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland. The average domestic rates bill is £1,127 a year.
Homes are affordable here, though not without reasons. Housing is within reach (A+): homes sell for a median £181,300, about 3.5 times local household income. Health lags: life expectancy 79.9 for men, 83.1 for women. Put together, the subjects come to a B+ overall, better than 74% of UK towns. In the ranking it comes #32 of 63 in Northern Ireland.
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 Enniskillen 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 Enniskillen is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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The Historic Environment Division lists 93 buildings inside Enniskillen’s settlement, 2 of them in the top grade, and 5 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Enniskillen. Best known first.
CastleEnniskillen Castlein town
CathedralSt. Macartin's Cathedralin town
CastlePortora Castlein town
Historic house · National TrustCastle Coole400 m outside town, to the southeastMuseumMuseumFermanagh County Museumin townMuseumMuseumThe Inniskillings Museumin townPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Enniskillen.
25% rent privately, below Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (26%) but above Northern Ireland’s towns (19%). Owners make up 56% of households. Council and housing-body homes hold 17% 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 Enniskillen, 2022 to 2024, brought to early-2025 prices and weighted by sales.
Below are two of its 13 schools, each with why it was picked. Enniskillen’s four primaries and seven secondaries have 5,632 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Trinity Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 551 | – |
| Enniskillen Royal Grammar SchoolLargest post-primary schoolPost-primary | Post-primary | 966 | C |
A disability affects 27% of people in Enniskillen. At the census, nearly one in ten residents said their health was bad or very bad, near Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (8.6%) and lower than Northern Ireland’s towns (8.7%).
| Census 2021 | Enniskillen | Fermanagh and Omagh | Northern Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 75% | 77% |
| Bad or very bad health | 8.3% | 8.6% | 8.7% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 27% | 28% | 26% |
NISRA Census 2021, general health and disability · NISRA life expectancy by district electoral area, 2022–24 · OGL · Read these answers with age in mind: they aren’t adjusted, so younger places do better. The Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, life expectancy among them.
There were 38.5 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), above Northern Ireland’s towns (20.7). Each year, 14.3 burglaries and acts of damage are recorded per 1,000 residents. The 12 months to August 2026 brought 942 recorded crimes inside Enniskillen’s settlement, and 458 reports of anti-social behaviour. Violence and sexual offences made up 45% of the total.
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 Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 12% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Driving is how 81% of commuters got to work at the census. 12% of workers worked mainly from home, close to Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (12%) and below Northern Ireland’s towns (18%). Enniskillen counts 2 jobs per working resident. Work in town: just over two thirds of resident commuters.
NISRA Census 2021, method of travel to work · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Scaled to its population, that is 66 listed buildings for every 10,000 people in Enniskillen. Its listed buildings include St. Macartin's Cathedral, Grade A. At the top of the list, 2 are Grade A and 7 Grade B+.
HED list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Children under 15 make up 17%, lower than both Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (18%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (19%). Enniskillen has a median age of 43.1.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Northern Ireland, 51% of residents are women.
| Enniskillen | Fermanagh and Omagh | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 19% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 26% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| No qualifications | 27% | 28% | 25% |
| A levels or similar | 14% | 14% | 16% |
| Degree level | 32% | 31% | 32% |
NISRA Census 2021 · Fermanagh and Omagh and Northern Ireland: all residents of their settlements · Women and men: whole data zones, which approximate the town’s boundary · OGL
93 listed buildings in Enniskillen, 2 of them Grade I.
The General Cole Column: Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Town Hall, The Diamond: Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Methodist Church: Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · St.Michael's Rc Church: Photo: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.0
76 notable people were born in Enniskillen.
Kyle Lafferty: Садовников Дмитрий, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Roy Carroll: Садовников Дмитрий, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Arlene Foster: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0 · Michael McGovern: Tadeáš Bednarz, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Robert Kerr: The original uploader was Jeronimo at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Adrian Dunbar: Brian O'Neill, CC BY-SA 3.0
The nearest settlements, from NISRA’s 2015 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enniskillen | 14,086 | — | B+ | A+ | C− | C− |
| Lisnaskea | 3,020 | 10 | A | A+ | B− | C− |
People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
That is 2.7 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Grade A buildings include St. Macartin's Cathedral. It also has 5 scheduled monuments.
Northern Ireland publishes no primary results. 7 post-primary schools are inside the town; places are handled by the Education Authority.
About the middle for its size: 56% 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−. Burglary was rare, with 19 reports in the year.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale in 2022 to 2024, at early-2025 prices, was £181,300, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. On cost of living it is the 24th most affordable of 63 Northern Ireland towns.
Town in Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
Enniskillen is a settlement of 14,086 people, in the Fermanagh and Omagh 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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