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The average domestic rates bill is £1,218 a year. 16,282 residents make their home in this town in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland.
Housing is within reach (A+): the median home sold for £153,700, 2.6 years of area income. With an A overall, Dungannon is better than 87% of UK towns and ranks #2 of 5 in Mid Ulster and #13 of 63 in Northern Ireland. Schools are another plus — GCSE results beat 82% of Northern Ireland towns. Residents’ health trails most towns (C−): men here can expect to live to 78.9, women to 82.6.
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 Dungannon 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 Dungannon is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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The Historic Environment Division lists 112 buildings inside Dungannon’s settlement, 20 of them in the second grade, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dungannon.
Only one of the 5 towns in Mid Ulster costs less to buy into than Dungannon, whose median sale is £153,700. Home ownership stands at 49% of households. Nearly a fifth of households rent from a council or housing body.
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 Dungannon, 2022 to 2024, brought to early-2025 prices and weighted by sales.
Some 6,054 pupils attend Dungannon’s five primaries and five secondaries. Two of its 12 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Patrick's Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 863 | – |
| St Patrick's AcademyLargest post-primary schoolPost-primary | Post-primary | 1,475 | B |
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.
24% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. Dungannon counts 1.3 jobs per working resident. Working from home was the norm for just over one in ten workers at the census.
NISRA Census 2021, method of travel to work · OGL
19% of residents have a disability, lower than both Mid Ulster’s towns (23%) and Northern Ireland’s towns (26%). Dungannon’s share in bad or very bad health, 6.1%, is the lowest of the 5 towns in Mid Ulster. Men in Dungannon can expect to live to 78.9, women to 82.6 (2022–24).
| Census 2021 | Dungannon | Mid Ulster | Northern Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 79% | 77% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.1% | 7.5% | 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 · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy among them, do allow for age.
Violence came to 27.8 per 1,000 residents a year, close to Mid Ulster’s towns (27.4) and above Northern Ireland’s towns (21.3). The Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded 831 crimes inside Dungannon’s settlement in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 320 reports of anti-social behaviour. Also worth knowing: among the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Dungannon has less crime per resident than 67% of them.
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 heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Grade B+ covers 20 of them. No town in Mid Ulster has more listed buildings for its size than Dungannon. One scheduled monument lies here.
HED list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Nearly a quarter of adults hold a degree. Children under 15 make up 21%, close to Mid Ulster’s towns (20%) and above Northern Ireland’s towns (19%). Typical age in Dungannon: 36.4, the median.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across Northern Ireland, 51% of residents are women.
| Dungannon | Mid Ulster | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 20% | 19% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 31% | 29% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 24% | 26% |
| 65+ | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| No qualifications | 39% | 33% | 25% |
| A levels or similar | 12% | 14% | 16% |
| Degree level | 23% | 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
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Dungannon. Best known first.
CastleCastlecaufield2.4 km outside town, to the west
CastleParkanaur Manor House4.2 km outside town, to the west
CastleRoughan Castle3.6 km outside town, to the northPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
112 listed buildings in Dungannon.
Former Bank of Ireland: Photo: Rena Maguire · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Presbyterian Church: Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
45 notable people were born in Dungannon.
Niall McGinn: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland (www.a-middletonphotography.com), CC BY 2.0 · Kris Meeke: Iain Cameron, CC BY 2.0 · Liam Donnelly: @cfcunofficial (Chelsea Debs) London, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Michelle Gildernew: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0 · George T. Oliver: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain · Austin Currie: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dungannon | 16,282 | — | A | A+ | C+ | C− |
| Coalisland | 5,468 | 3.7 | B | A+ | C+ | C− |
| Cookstown | 12,546 | 9.7 | A− | A+ | C+ | C− |
| Armagh | 16,310 | 12 | B− | A+ | C | C− |
People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
That is 2.8 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale in 2022 to 2024, at early-2025 prices, was £153,700, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. On cost of living it is the most affordable of 63 Northern Ireland towns.
Northern Ireland publishes no primary results. 5 post-primary schools are inside the town; places are handled by the Education Authority.
Against all UK towns, most of them smaller, it grades C+. The Police Service of Northern Ireland recorded 831 crimes inside Dungannon’s settlement in the 12 months to August 2026, 52% of them violence and sexual offences, a police category that includes harassment and stalking.
Town in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
Dungannon is a settlement of 16,282 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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