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Secondary school results beat 100% of Northern Ireland towns. 3,020 residents make their home in this town in Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland.
What it saves you on housing, it gives back elsewhere. With an A overall, Lisnaskea is better than 90% of UK towns. The ranking puts it #12 of 63 in Northern Ireland. Its best grade is for schools (A+): GCSE results beat 100% of Northern Ireland towns. Add cost of living to its strengths (A+): the median home sold for £153,900, 3 years of area income. Residents’ health trails most towns: life expectancy is 79.1 for men and 83.4 for women. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for safety and C+ for walkability.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry (LPS), 2022 to 2024 at early-2025 prices · life expectancy, ONS · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · commuting, Census 2021.
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 Lisnaskea 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 Lisnaskea is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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The Historic Environment Division lists 34 buildings inside Lisnaskea’s settlement, 2 of them in the second grade.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lisnaskea.
St Kevin's College’s results beat nearly every one of schools in Northern Ireland like it. Of its 4 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason. Between them, three primaries and one secondary teach 1,301 pupils in Lisnaskea.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Ronan's Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 340 | – |
| St Kevin's CollegeLargest post-primary schoolPost-primary | Post-primary | 748 | A+ |
Private tenants account for a quarter of households. No town in Fermanagh and Omagh costs less to buy into than Lisnaskea, at £153,900, the lowest of 3. Social housing holds 17% of households, higher than Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (16%) yet lower than Northern Ireland’s towns (20%).
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 Lisnaskea, 2022 to 2024, brought to early-2025 prices and weighted by sales.
28% of residents have a disability, close to Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (28%) and above Northern Ireland’s towns (26%). Women here live to 83.4 on average and men to 79.1 (2022–24).
| Census 2021 | Lisnaskea | Fermanagh and Omagh | Northern Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 75% | 77% |
| Bad or very bad health | 8.5% | 8.6% | 8.7% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 28% | 28% | 26% |
NISRA Census 2021, general health and disability · NISRA life expectancy by district electoral area, 2022–24 · OGL · Young towns look healthier on these answers, which aren’t adjusted for age; the Health Grade uses measures that are, such as life expectancy.
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. Lisnaskea counts 34 listed buildings on the national list (HED): 2 Grade B+.
HED list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 13% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
There are 1.1 jobs in Lisnaskea for each resident in work. At the census, 13% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below both Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (14%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (18%). 32% of commuters who live in Lisnaskea also work there.
NISRA Census 2021, method of travel to work · OGL
Over the year to August 2026, 133 offences were reported in Lisnaskea, along with 55 incidents of anti-social behaviour. 45% of the crimes fell under violence and sexual offences. Homes saw 9.5 burglaries and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year, higher than Northern Ireland’s towns (8.8).
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.
Graduates make up just over a quarter of adults. 22% are under 15, above Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (18%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (19%) alike. Retirement age and beyond: 20% of residents are 65 or older. Lisnaskea has a median age of 39.9 years.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Northern Ireland, 51% of residents are women.
| Lisnaskea | Fermanagh and Omagh | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 18% | 19% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 26% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| No qualifications | 32% | 28% | 25% |
| A levels or similar | 14% | 14% | 16% |
| Degree level | 26% | 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
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Lisnaskea. Best known first.
CastleCastle Balfourin townAttractionAttractionCeltic High Crossin townFortFortLisnagole1.1 km outside town, to the northwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
The nearest settlements, from NISRA’s 2015 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisnaskea | 3,020 | — | A | A+ | B− | C− |
| Enniskillen | 14,086 | 10 | B+ | A+ | C− | C− |
People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Northern Ireland publishes no primary results. 1 post-primary school is inside the town; places are handled by the Education Authority.
That is 4.6 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size.
On cost of living it is the 8th most affordable of 63 Northern Ireland towns.
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 Fermanagh and Omagh is about £1,127 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 Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
Lisnaskea is a settlement of 3,020 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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