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4,891 people live in this town in Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland.
Good value, with catches elsewhere. Moira’s overall grade is A−, better than four in five UK towns. In the ranking it comes #24 of 63 in Northern Ireland. Homes are affordable: the median home sold for £281,500, 5.2 years of area income. Its schools fall short (C−): GCSE results beat 18% of Northern Ireland towns. Walkability is weaker too: on the way to work, 10% walk, cycle or take a bus or train.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry (LPS), 2022 to 2024 at early-2025 prices · 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).
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Northern Ireland), ordered by how far Moira is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The 3 things Moira does most differently from other towns.
The Historic Environment Division lists 27 buildings inside Moira’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 Moira.
Social housing holds 5% of households, lower than both Lisburn and Castlereagh’s towns (16%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (20%). Only one of the 5 towns in Lisburn and Castlereagh costs more to buy into than Moira, whose median sale is £281,500.
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 Moira, 2022 to 2024, brought to early-2025 prices and weighted by sales.
Below is its only school. 432 pupils attend Moira’s one primary school. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moira Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 432 | – |
Violence accounts for 9.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Reported offences in Moira came to 111 over twelve months to August 2026; nuisance and anti-social incidents added 38. Burglary and damage come to 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year. There were 8.7 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), below Lisburn and Castlereagh’s towns (14) and Northern Ireland’s towns (20.7) alike.
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 Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 24% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Working mainly from home: 24% of workers, above both Lisburn and Castlereagh’s towns (22%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (18%). There are 0.6 jobs in Moira for each resident in work. The next most common way to work was walking (4%).
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.
Moira has 55 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents, above both Lisburn and Castlereagh’s towns (13) and Northern Ireland’s towns (34). Its listed buildings include Saint John's Parish Church of Ireland, Grade A. One scheduled monument lies locally.
HED list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
At the census, 84% of people in Moira called their health good or very good, above both Lisburn and Castlereagh’s towns (80%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (77%). 5.3% of residents report bad or very bad health. Women here live to 84.7 on average and men to 80.5 (2022–24).
| Census 2021 | Moira | Lisburn and Castlereagh | Northern Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 80% | 77% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.3% | 6.9% | 8.7% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 19% | 23% | 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.
Aged 15 to 24: nearly one in ten residents. 17% are under 15, below both Lisburn and Castlereagh’s towns (19%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (19%). At 42.7, the median resident of Moira sits in the middle of the age range.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Northern Ireland, 51% of residents are women.
| Moira | Lisburn and Castlereagh | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 9.7% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 28% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 19% | 25% |
| A levels or similar | 14% | 15% | 16% |
| Degree level | 49% | 38% | 32% |
NISRA Census 2021 · Lisburn and Castlereagh and Northern Ireland: all residents of their settlements · Women and men: whole data zones, which approximate the town’s boundary · OGL
4 notable people were born in Moira.
William Sharman Crawford: William Sharman Crawford by Thomas Goff Lupton, after John Prescott Knight mezzotint, published 1844 (1843), Public domain
Town in Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland
Moira is a settlement of 4,891 people, in the Lisburn and Castlereagh 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
The nearest settlements, from NISRA’s 2015 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moira | 4,891 | — | A− | A+ | A | B− |
| Waringstown | 3,866 | 4.1 | A− | A+ | A | B |
| Dromore | 6,395 | 5.8 | A | A+ | B+ | C+ |
| Hillsborough and Culcavy | 3,754 | 6.1 | A+ | A | A+ | B− |
| Craigavon | 72,301 | 6.8 | C+ | A+ | C | C− |
| Lisburn | 51,447 | 7.4 | A− | A+ | B− | C− |
| Banbridge | 17,400 | 9.3 | B | A+ | C+ | C− |
| Crumlin | 5,366 | 9.7 | A | A+ | B | C |
People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded 111 crimes inside Moira’s settlement in the 12 months to August 2026, 51% of them violence and sexual offences, a police category that includes harassment and stalking.
That is 2.3 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Grade A building is Saint John's Parish Church of Ireland. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Northern Ireland publishes no primary results. Places are handled by the Education Authority.
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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