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It is a town of 5,468 residents in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland. The average domestic rates bill is £1,218 a year.
Overall, Coalisland earns a B, which places it #46 of 63 in Northern Ireland. Nationally, it does better than 63% of UK towns. Cost of living is its strong suit — homes sell for a median £147,000, about 2.5 times local household income. Add schools to its strengths: GCSE results beat 68% of Northern Ireland towns. Health lags: men here can expect to live to 78.7, women to 83.2.
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 Coalisland 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 Coalisland is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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The Historic Environment Division lists 7 buildings inside Coalisland’s settlement, and 6 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Coalisland.
Households that own their home make up 50%. No town in Mid Ulster costs less to buy into than Coalisland, at £147,000, the lowest of 5. Social housing holds 22% of households, above Mid Ulster’s towns (17%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (20%) alike. Private tenants account for 24% 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 Coalisland, 2022 to 2024, brought to early-2025 prices and weighted by sales.
St Joseph's College’s results beat just over four in five schools in Northern Ireland like it. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. Coalisland’s two primaries and one secondary have 1,236 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primate Dixon Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 610 | – |
| St Joseph's CollegeLargest post-primary schoolPost-primary | Post-primary | 502 | A− |
Just over three quarters of Coalisland’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, below both Mid Ulster’s towns (79%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (77%). A disability affects 27% of people locally. Women here live to 83.2 on average and men to 78.7 (2022–24).
| Census 2021 | Coalisland | Mid Ulster | Northern Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 79% | 77% |
| Bad or very bad health | 9.4% | 7.5% | 8.7% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 27% | 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.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 11% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Nearly nine in ten commuters drove, above both Mid Ulster’s towns (79%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (79%). There are 0.8 jobs in Coalisland for each resident in work. Work in town: 17% of resident commuters.
NISRA Census 2021, method of travel to work · OGL
A year of reports to August 2026 adds up to 302 offences in Coalisland and 105 cases of nuisance behaviour. Violent crime ran at 27.5 per 1,000 residents a year, about level with Mid Ulster’s towns (27.6) and above Northern Ireland’s towns (21.3). Violence and sexual offences accounted for 52% 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 heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
No town in Mid Ulster has fewer listed buildings for its size than Coalisland. 6 scheduled monuments lie locally.
HED list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Aged 15 to 24: 13% of residents. 14% of residents are 65 or over, below both Mid Ulster’s towns (15%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (17%). Line up the people of Coalisland by age and the one in the middle is 35.7. Graduates make up 25% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Northern Ireland, 51% of residents are women.
| Coalisland | Mid Ulster | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 20% | 19% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 29% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 24% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| No qualifications | 31% | 33% | 25% |
| A levels or similar | 15% | 14% | 16% |
| Degree level | 25% | 26% | 32% |
NISRA Census 2021 · Mid Ulster and Northern Ireland: all residents of their settlements · Women and men: whole data zones, which approximate the town’s boundary · OGL
9 notable people were born in Coalisland.
Dennis Taylor: John Dempsey, CC BY 2.0
The nearest settlements, from NISRA’s 2015 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalisland | 5,468 | — | B | A+ | C+ | C− |
| Dungannon | 16,282 | 3.7 | A | A+ | C+ | C− |
| Cookstown | 12,546 | 7.5 | A− | A+ | C+ | C− |
People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale in 2022 to 2024, at early-2025 prices, was £147,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. On cost of living it is the 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 Mid Ulster is about £1,218 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.
About the middle for its size: 64% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people report less crime per resident. Against all UK towns, it grades C+. Burglary was rare, with 8 reports in the year.
Town in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
Coalisland is a settlement of 5,468 people, in the Mid Ulster 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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