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A large town of 20,458 in Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland. The average domestic rates bill is £1,127 a year.
Omagh grades A− overall against UK towns: better than 81% of UK towns, and #20 of 63 in Northern Ireland. Its strongest subject is cost of living (A+): the 20th most affordable of 63 Northern Ireland towns: median sale £176,600, 3.4 years of area income; rates £1,127 a year. Its weakest is health (D): life expectancy 77.1 for men, 83.1 for women.
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 Omagh 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 Omagh is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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The Historic Environment Division lists 52 buildings inside Omagh’s settlement, 1 of them in the top grade, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Omagh.
Social housing holds 16% of households, close to Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (16%) and below Northern Ireland’s towns (20%). Home ownership stands at 54% of households. It is the 2nd most expensive of 3 towns of 2,500+ in Fermanagh and Omagh.
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 Omagh, 2022 to 2024, brought to early-2025 prices and weighted by sales.
Omagh’s seven primaries and six secondaries have 6,565 pupils between them. Two of its 15 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omagh County Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 449 | – |
| Christian Brothers Grammar SchoolLargest post-primary schoolPost-primary | Post-primary | 913 | C− |
Nearly three quarters of Omagh’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, below Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (75%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (77%) alike. A disability affects 29% of people here. At the census, 8.9% of people here described their health as bad or very bad.
| Census 2021 | Omagh | Fermanagh and Omagh | Northern Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 74% | 75% | 77% |
| Bad or very bad health | 8.9% | 8.6% | 8.7% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 29% | 28% | 26% |
NISRA Census 2021, general health and disability · NISRA life expectancy by district electoral area, 2022–24 · OGL · These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
For its size, Omagh has the fewest listed buildings of the towns in Fermanagh and Omagh. Its listed buildings include Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Grade A. The national list protects one ancient monument in the town.
HED list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
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.
85% of commuters drove, above Fermanagh and Omagh’s towns (84%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (79%) alike. The town counts 1.6 jobs per working resident. Of the commuters living in the town, 57% work in the town itself.
NISRA Census 2021, method of travel to work · OGL
Town centres with shops, stations and nightlife record more crime per resident: police.uk counts crimes where they happen, not where victims live.
There were 28.7 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), higher than Northern Ireland’s towns (20.7). The Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded 1,053 crimes inside Omagh’s settlement in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 675 reports of anti-social behaviour. Violence and sexual offences accounted for half of recorded crime.
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 middle age in Omagh is 41. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 11% of residents, higher than Fermanagh and the town’s towns (11%) yet lower than Northern Ireland’s towns (12%). Under 15: 18% of residents.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across Northern Ireland, 51% of residents are women.
| Omagh | Fermanagh and Omagh | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 19% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 26% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| No qualifications | 28% | 28% | 25% |
| A levels or similar | 15% | 14% | 16% |
| Degree level | 30% | 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
52 listed buildings in Omagh, 1 of them Grade I.
St. Columba’s Church of Ireland: Photo: Tamas 1364 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fermanagh and Tyrone Hospital: Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Bell's Bridge: Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Omagh Methodist Church: Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
37 notable people were born in Omagh.
Sam Neill: New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC0 · Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0
Northern Ireland publishes no primary results. 6 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 £176,600, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. On cost of living it is the 20th most affordable of 63 Northern Ireland towns.
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 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.
Large town in Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
Omagh is a settlement of 20,458 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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