These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects. [161] It was not until industry transformed the linen and shipbuilding trades that the economy and the population boomed. However, the establishment of the Shaw's Road Gaeltacht community has inspired use of the language across Northern Ireland. 2,900 doors, which if laid end to end would stretch for 5 miles. Belfast's 2023 population is now estimated at 696,537. The number of one person households now stands at 234,600 (30.5% of all households), up from 196,400 one person households in 2011 (27.9%). Just over 3% of our population, or 65,600 people, now belong to ethnic minority groups, around double the 2011 figure of 1.8% or 32,400 people and four times the 2001 figure (0.8% or 14,300 people). Stena Line runs regular routes to Cairnryan in Scotland using its conventional vesselswith a crossing time of around 2 hours 15 minutes. The visitors spent 285.2million, supporting more than 15,600 jobs. Belfast has grown by 4,186 in the last year, which represents a 0.6% annual change. In 2005, Belfast International Airport was the 11th busiest commercial airport in the UK, accounting for just over 2% of all UK terminal passengers while the George Best Belfast City Airport was the 16th busiest and had 1% of UK terminal passengers. [145] An area of deprivation is found in the inner parts of the north and west of the city. As "Dissenters" from the established Church, Presbyterians were conscious of sharing, if only in part, the disabilities of Ireland's dispossessed Roman Catholic majority; and of being denied representation in the Irish Parliament. The share of the Northern Ireland population represented by people aged 65 years and over stood at 17.2% in 2021. [72] Superseded by the River Lagan as the more important river in the city, the Farset now languishes in obscurity, under High Street. [192]Musgrave Park Hospital in south Belfast specialises in orthopaedics, rheumatology, sports medicine and rehabilitation. One of the offers was by a group including the National Maritime Museum and National Museums Northern Ireland, with assistance by James Cameron. The Census held on 21 March 2021, Northern Ireland's centenary year, highlighted a population of 1,903,175 the highest ever but the data also shows that the population continues to age. Bus services in the city proper and the nearer suburbs are operated by Translink Metro, with services focusing on linking residential districts with the city centre on 12 quality bus corridors running along main radial roads,[200], More distant suburbs are served by Ulsterbus. In the deadliest event, known as the Ballymurphy massacre, between 9 and 11 August 1971 members of the Parachute Regiment killed at least nine civilians. Belfast City Council takes part in the twinning scheme,[256] and is twinned with the following sister cities: The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Belfast. Explanation: For Scotland, the 2021 figures refer to mid-2021 population estimates. [110] Plans include apartments, a riverside entertainment district, and a major Titanic-themed museum. In all, 598,800 people (31.5%) living here identified solely or along with other national identities as Northern Irish, up from 533,100 people (29.4%) in 2011. [253], In 2018, six hotels were opened, with the biggest in Northern Ireland, the 53million Grand Central Hotel Belfast officially open to the public. Sign up to our FREE newsletter. Ranging in length from a few hundred metres to over 5 kilometres, the security barriers have increased both in height and number since 1998. By the early 19th century, Belfast was a major port. The Royal Courts of Justice in Chichester Street are home to Northern Ireland's Supreme Court. In one raid, in 1941, German bombers killed around one thousand people and left tens of thousands homeless. On Census Day 27 March 2011, in Belfast Local Government District (2014), considering the resident population: Respondents could indicate more than one national identity. Information relating to the Population Statistics teams engagement with its users/stakeholders. [123], Sitting at the mouth of the River Lagan where it becomes a deep and sheltered lough, Belfast is surrounded by mountains that create a micro-climate conducive to horticulture. [218] Oceanographer Robert Ballard said he favored this bid since it would ensure that the memorabilia would be permanently displayed in Belfast (where the Titanic was built) and in Greenwich. The remaining 9.3% or 177,400 people neither belonged to nor were brought up in any religion. [145] Since then, the inner city numbers have dropped dramatically as people have moved to swell the Greater Belfast suburb population. The data also shows that population ageing has been happening across each of the 11 local councils. [162] Like many British cities dependent on traditional heavy industry, Belfast suffered serious decline since the 1960s, exacerbated greatly in the 1970s and 1980s by the Troubles. Updated 9:57 AM EDT, Sun July 11, 2021 Link Copied! U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Belfast city, Maine QuickFacts Belfast city, Maine Table (a) Includes persons reporting only one race (c) Economic Census - Puerto Rico data are not comparable to U.S. Economic Census data (b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories The plentiful supply of cheap labour helped attract English and Scottish capital to Belfast, but it was also a cause of insecurity. On census day 2021, there were 768,810 occupied households in Northern Ireland, up 9.3% from the 703,275 recorded ten years earlier. This group has increased in size from 2011 when 5.6% or 101,200 people were recorded in this way. However, 12.2% of Belfast families live in poverty. Ethnicity figures also show that the white population of Belfast has fallen from 97 per cent in 2011 to 93 per cent in 2021. It was the first aircraft manufacturing company in the world. Dr David Marshall, director of Census and population statistics at the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, said the differing age profiles of the Protestant and Catholic communities was key to understanding the shifting numbers. Among surviving elements of the early pre-Victorian town are the Belfast Entries, 17th-century alleyways off High Street, including, in Winecellar's Entry, White's Tavern (rebuilt 1790); the First Presbyterian (Non-Subscribing) Church (178183) in Rosemary Street (whose members led the abolitionist charge against Greg and Cunningham);[34] St George's Church of Ireland (1816) on the High Street site of the old Corporation Church; and the oldest public building in Belfast, Clifton House (177174), the Belfast Charitable Society poorhouse on North Queen Street.[35]. Weatherall, Norman (text) and Evans, David (paintings) 2002, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 00:22. 2012. Belfast produced the Formula One racing stars John Watson who raced for five different teams during his career in the 1970s and 1980s and Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine. The architecture of the Grand Opera House has an oriental theme and was completed in 1895. [230], Belfast is home to over twenty Gaelic football and hurling clubs. The area has a large student population and hosts the annual Belfast International Arts Festival each autumn. [241] It is one of the largest universities in the UK with 25,231 undergraduate and postgraduate students spread over 250 buildings, 120 of which are listed as being of architectural merit. London 10 M. Manchester 3 M Belfast is one of the constituent cities that makes up the Dublin-Belfast corridor region, which has a population of just under 3million. The IRA ceasefire in 1994 and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 have given investors increased confidence to invest in Belfast. 5.23% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and. [226], The Northern Ireland national football team, ranked 59th as of October 2022 in the FIFA World Rankings,[227] plays its home matches at Windsor Park. Most of Belfast's water is supplied via the Aquarius pipeline from the Silent Valley Reservoir in County Down, created to collect water from the Mourne Mountains. [236] In 1921, as the greater part of Ireland seceded as the Irish Free State, Belfast became the capital of the six counties remaining as Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. The zoo houses more than 1,200 animals of 140 species including Asian elephants, Barbary lions, Malayan sun bears (one of the few in the United Kingdom), two species of penguin, a family of western lowland gorillas, a troop of common chimpanzees, a pair of red pandas, a pair of Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos and Francois' langurs. Check out the Belfast Official Trailer starring Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe! [132] Rose Week in July each year features over 20,000 blooms. For key statistics relating to population estimates, explore the population statistics dashboard. [71], The River Farset is also named after this silt deposit (from the Irish feirste meaning "sand spit"). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 17001850", "Belfast City Council. [190] It also provides the city's specialist neurosurgical, ophthalmology, ENT, and dentistry services. Conservationists are celebrating a bumper year for barn owls in Northern Ireland. Colourpoint Books. In Belfastnotwithstanding the political friction caused by Sinn Fin's electoral triumph in the souththis involved some 60,000 workers, Protestant and Catholic, in a four-week walk-out.[37]. The usual resident population as at Census day (21 March 2021), by single year of age, is aged on to 30 June 2021 and then births, deaths and migration are accounted for. London had the next highest. In total, 4.6% (85,100 people) of our population aged 3 and over had a main language other than English. It is likely Catholics will outnumber Protestants by 2021 in Northern Ireland, according to a leading academic. In 1932, the devolved parliament for the region was housed in new buildings at Stormont on the eastern edge of the city. Protestant workers who organised to secure their access to jobs and housing gave a new lease of life in the town to the once largely rural Orange Order. [121] The Ulster Hall (18591862) was originally designed for grand dances but is now used primarily as a concert and sporting venue. This group is up from 61,900 people in 2011 (3.4% of the population) to 113,400 people in 2021 (6% of the population). Other significant sportspeople from Belfast include double world snooker champion Alex "Hurricane" Higgins[235] and world champion boxers Wayne McCullough, Rinty Monaghan and Carl Frampton. The council spends 1.5million every year on running and promoting the zoo, which is one of the few local government-funded zoos in the UK and Ireland. Consequently, the arterial roads along which this expansion took place (such as the Falls Road or the Newtownards Road) are more significant in defining the districts of the city than nucleated settlements. The Belfast City Council area in the 2011 census. second phase of main statistics results from Census 2021, Census 2021 person and household estimates for Data Zones in Northern Ireland, Census 2021 main statistics for Northern Ireland (phase 2), Census 2021 main statistics health, disability and unpaid care tables, household composition and living arrangements. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has two of the largest dry docks in Europe,[119] where the giant cranes, Samson and Goliath stand out against Belfast's skyline. Let us know what you think in the comments below. The provision of certain resources for these schools (for example, such as the provision of textbooks) is supported by the charitable organisation TACA. A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s. "Clearly, in part that's driven by the impact of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union in 2016. [154] The largest groups are Poles, Chinese and Indians.[155][156]. The number of one person households is now the highest on record, a change driven at least in part by our ageing population. The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze Age. "What we found in the 2011 census was that the Catholic population was on average younger, so there was essentially a higher number of births in the Catholic population than deaths. In total, 1,484,700 people (78%) held a single passport and 116,300 people (6.1%) held more than one passport. The Cathedral Quarter takes its name from St Anne's Cathedral (Church of Ireland) and has taken on the mantle of the city's key cultural locality. [147], As with many cities, Belfast's inner city is currently characterised by the elderly, students and single young people, while families tend to live on the periphery. Belfast has a longstanding underground club scene which was established in the early 1980s.[215]. But it was with Scottish Presbyterians that the town was to grow as an industrial port. When the Titanic was built in Belfast in 19111912, Harland and Wolff had the largest shipyard in the world. [8], 43% of Belfast has a UK passport only, 29% has a Republic of Ireland passport only, 6% has both UK and RoI (Republic of Ireland) passports, 8% have other passports and 14% have no passport. The current metro area population of Belfast in 2022 is 639,000, a 0.63% increase from 2021. In 2011, English was not the main language of 3.1% (54,500 people). The population of Belfast was 345,418 in 2021. At the 2021 census, the prevalence rates for the main religions were: Catholic (42 per cent); Presbyterian (16 per cent); Church of Ireland (11.5 per cent); Methodist (2.4 per cent); Other Christian or Christian-related denominations (6.9 per cent); other Religions and Philosophies (1.3 per cent); those declaring no religion (17.4 per cent) and The number of people holding a UK passport solely or jointly stood at one million, a decrease from 1.07m a decade earlier. Belfast households made slightly more than Hodgdonhouseholds ($55,804) and Richmondhouseholds ($55,878) . the U.K. ranks number 21 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population. [126] In 2006, the City Council set aside 8million to continue this work. [155] The majority of the estimated 5,000 Muslims[157] and 200 Hindu families[158] living in Northern Ireland live in the Greater Belfast area. To sign up to our FREE newsletters, see here. The minimum temperature at Aldergrove was 14.9C (5.2F), during December 2010. BELFAST BT9 5RR. Bombing, assassination and street violence formed a backdrop to life throughout the Troubles. 21 October 2019. [203][204], The city has two airports: Belfast International Airport offering, domestic, European and international flights such as Orlando operated seasonally by Virgin Atlantic. [225], Belfast has several notable sports teams playing a diverse variety of sports such as football, Gaelic games, rugby, cricket, and ice hockey. [165] The Harland and Wolff shipbuilding firm was created in 1861, and by the time the Titanic was built, in 1912, it had become the largest shipyard in the world. Belfast remained a small settlement of little importance during the Middle Ages. For the first time ever, there are more people from a Catholic background than Protestant The proportion of the resident population, either Catholic or brought up Catholic, is 45.7% compared to 43.48% Protestant. [53], During the 1970s and 1980s Belfast was one of the world's most dangerous cities. The Magee campus, about 70mi (113km) from Belfast city centre has many teaching strengths; including business, computing, creative technologies, nursing, Irish language and literature, social sciences, law, psychology, peace and conflict studies and the performing arts. The voting age population is 42.4% male and 57.6% female. The number of people living in Northern Ireland who were born outside the UK and Ireland has grown from 81,500 people (4.5%) in 2011 to 124,300 people (6.5%) in 2021, the highest ever recorded in Northern Ireland. The college has over 53,000 students enrolled on full-time and part-time courses, making it one of the largest further education colleges in the UK and the largest in the island of Ireland. [193] Other hospitals in Belfast include the Mater Hospital in north Belfast and the Children's Hospital. The same year, 80,000 people participated in culture and other arts activities, twice as many as in 200304. [67] In the 2017 UK general election, Belfast elected one Member of Parliament (MP) from each constituency to the House of Commons at Westminster, London. Throughout the Troubles, Belfast artists continued to express themselves through poetry, art and music. [214] The music school of Queen's University is responsible for arranging a notable series of lunchtime and evening concerts, often given by renowned musicians which are usually given in The Harty Room at the university (University Square). 21 October 2019. In 2021, the median household income of Belfast households was $55,900. During the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, local sunset is before 16:00 while sunrise is around 08:45. [170] He added that the surge in the number of people holding Irish passports was influenced by Brexit. It played an important role in the Industrial Revolution in Ireland, briefly becoming the biggest linen-producer in the world, earning it the nickname "Linenopolis". Contents 1 Population 1.1 Population 1.1.1 Sex 1.2 Age 2 Ethnicity 3 Migration 3.1 Country of birth 3.2 Passports held 4 Religion 5 Identity 6 References Population [ edit] Population density of Belfast City Council in 2011 See all related documents. As with the vast majority of the rest of Ireland, Belfast has a temperate oceanic climate (Cfb in the Kppen climate classification), with a narrow range of temperatures and rainfall throughout the year. [68] [52] The British Army, first deployed on the streets in August 1969, was also responsible for civilian deaths. It features a criss-cross of escalators and suspended walkways and nine high-tech galleries. Dr David Marshall, director of Census and population statistics at the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time since the partition of the island, census figures show. [201], In April 2008, the Department for Regional Development reported on a plan for a light-rail system, similar to that in Dublin. The Belfast Health & Social Care Trust is one of five trusts that were created on 1 April 2007 by the Department of Health. In 1919, workers in all three cities struck for a ten-hour reduction in the working week. Want the biggest political stories and analysis sent to you every week? This fall is counterbalanced, but only partially, by increases in the number of people who identify as British and Northern Irish, up from 111,700 in 2011 to 151,300 in 2021, and by those who identify as British, Irish and Northern Irish, up from 18,400 in 2011 to 28,100 in 2021. 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