[42], The cost was borne by the British Exchequer. 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. Combining current religion and religion of upbringing gives 45.7% who were Catholic, 43.5% who were Protestant, Other Christian or Christian related and 1.5% who were from other non-Christian religions. [36] But also common to this "industrial triangle" were traditions of labour militancy. The number of people holding a UK passport solely or jointly stood at one million, a decrease from 1.07m a decade earlier. The Belfast City Council area in the 2011 census. In terms of passports, almost 60% of people had a British passport while just over 20% had an Irish one. The nearest weather station for which sunshine data and longer term observations are available is Belfast International Airport (Aldergrove). Introduced in 2018, it is a bus rapid transit system linking East Belfast, West Belfast and the Titanic Quarter from the City Centre. These include British only, Irish only, British and Northern Irish etc. Population statistics are widely used in policy development in areas such as housing, healthcare and education, as well as being used to allocate public funds to the Northern Ireland Executive through the Barnett formula. This group has increased in size from 2011 when 5.6% or 101,200 people were recorded in this way. Dr Marshall said academic research following the 2011 census also found evidence of an increasing number of people who would have previously described themselves as Protestant choosing to identify as having no religion. By the turn of the 19th century, Belfast had transformed into the largest linen producing centre in the world,[162] earning the city and its hinterlands the nickname "Linenopolis" during the Victorian Era and into the early part of the 20th century. The areas around the Falls Road, Ardoyne and New Lodge (Catholic nationalist) and the Shankill Road (Protestant loyalist) are among the ten most deprived wards in Northern Ireland. The largest person-specific national identities were: - British only - 606,300 people or 31.9% of our population; - Irish only - 554,400 people or 29.1% of our population; - Northern Irish only - 376,400 people or 19.8% of our population; and. Since the expansion of the European Union, numbers have been boosted by an influx of Eastern European immigrants. The visitors spent 285.2million, supporting more than 15,600 jobs. [47], Belfast saw some of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, particularly in the 1970s, with rival paramilitary groups formed on both sides. Because of this, it is less an agglomeration of villages and towns which have expanded into each other, than other comparable cities, such as Manchester or Birmingham. Donegall Quay was built out into the river as the harbour was developed further and trade flourished. [159] This represents a 1.60% increase since the 2001 Census. While the number of households in Northern Ireland was 768,810. Population growth was proportionately greatest in Lisburn and Castlereagh with 149,100 people in 2021, up 10.6% from 2011. Belfast 400 People Places and History. [133] It has an area of 128 acres (0.52km2) of meadows, woodland and gardens and features a Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Garden, a Japanese garden, a walled garden, and the Golden Crown Fountain commissioned in 2002 as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations.[132]. Liverpool University Press. The city of Belfast is the provincial capital of Northern Ireland. Belfast, Irish Bal Feirste, city, district, and capital of Northern Ireland, on the River Lagan, at its entrance to Belfast Lough (inlet of the sea). National Cycle Route 9 to Newry,[208] which will eventually connect with Dublin,[209] starts in Belfast. The Glider bus service is a new form of transport in Belfast. Thesecond phase of main statistics results from Census 2021are now available. According to the latest census statistics, 26.2% of the residents of Belfast are 65 or older. It became a city by royal charter in 1888. However, since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, there has been significant urban regeneration in the city centre including Victoria Square, Queen's Island and Laganside as well as the Odyssey complex and the landmark Waterfront Hall. [160], Around this time, the linen trade in Northern Ireland blossomed and by the middle of the 18th century, one fifth of all the linen exported from Ireland was shipped from Belfast. Ards and North Down has the highest percentage of older people at 22.1% while in contrast Mid Ulster has the highest percentage of people aged under 15 at 21.7%. The 2021 census figures also show show that the percentage of the population brought up as Catholic has overtaken Protestant for the first time. [206] Using articulated buses, the 90million service saw a 17% increase in its first month in Belfast, with 30,000 more people using the Gliders every week. [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. Colourpoint Books. [44] The new welfare state contributed, in turn, to rising expectations; in the 1960s, a possible factor in new and growing protest over the Unionist government's record on civil and political rights. [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. 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). [229] Since his death the City Airport was named after him and a trust has been set up to fund a memorial to him in the city centre. Some 24 chicks fledged from eight known breeding pairs - a 500% increase in chicks from 2021 . Information relating to the Population Statistics teams engagement with its users/stakeholders. Belfast was granted borough status by James VI and I in 1613 and official city status by Queen Victoria in 1888. [243], Belfast Metropolitan College is a large further education college with three main campuses around the city, including several smaller buildings. "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. 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. [71], The River Farset is also named after this silt deposit (from the Irish feirste meaning "sand spit"). Belfast is divided into four Northern Ireland Assembly and UK parliamentary constituencies: Belfast North, Belfast West, Belfast South and Belfast East. The city has become a popular film location; The Paint Hall at Harland and Wolff has become one of the UK Film Council's main studios. "That's because [of] the fundamentals of the UK economy and [because] people actually want to invest in the UK," he commented on that report.[180]. [145] An area of deprivation is found in the inner parts of the north and west of the city. [185] Belfast has approximately 1,300km (808mi) of sewers, which are currently being replaced in a project costing over 100million and due for completion in 2009. In 2021 there were 92,500 people resident in Northern Ireland (or 4.9% of our population) who held a non-UK/Ireland passport only. The other hotels included AC Marriot, Hampton By Hilton, EasyHotel, Maldron Belfast City Centre and Flint. 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. On census day 2021, there were 768,810 occupied households in Northern Ireland, up 9.3% from the 703,275 recorded ten years earlier. [224] The event was hosted by Selena Gomez and celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Jessie J, Hayden Panettiere, and Lady Gaga travelled to Northern Ireland to attend the event, held in the Odyssey Arena. However the total number of people identifying as either British and Northern Irish or Irish and Northern Irish or British, Irish and Northern Irish is up from 149,300 people in 2011 to 213,000 people in 2021. Proportionately the fastest growing group is people with other national identities - typically identities from outside UK and Ireland. This was followed by the drilling and eventual arming of a 100,000-strong Ulster Volunteer Force. The Belfast Health & Social Care Trust is one of five trusts that were created on 1 April 2007 by the Department of Health. Queen's University Belfast was founded in 1845 and is a member of the Russell Group, an association of 24 leading research-intensive universities in the UK. A decision as to the outcome was to be made by a United States district court judge. 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. The population of Northern Ireland on census day, 21 March 2021, was 1,903,175. [168][169] This has led to a period of sustained economic growth and large-scale redevelopment of the city centre. Apart from London, this was the greatest loss of life in a night raid during the Blitz. [199] These are outnumbered by private hire taxis. There are two independent cinemas in Belfast: the Queen's Film Theatre and the Strand Cinema, which host screenings during the Belfast Film Festival and the Belfast Festival at Queen's. 2,731 steps which if climbed twice a week would be equal to climbing Slieve Donard. Belfast saw further severe violence and numerous bombings during the thirty years of the Troubles, c.19691998, and parts of the city remain segregated between Catholics and Protestants. Belfast is still a port with commercial and industrial docks, including the Harland & Wolff shipyard, dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline. In November 2011, Belfast became the smallest city to host the MTV Europe Music Awards. Media Queries Together with French Huguenot refugees, they introduced the production of linen, an industry that carried Belfast trade to the Americas. London 10 M. Manchester 3 M Information on the assurance mechanisms for Census 2021. [110] Plans include apartments, a riverside entertainment district, and a major Titanic-themed museum. Belfast has a high concentration of Irish-speakers. Burns and the other pupils at north Belfast's Holy Cross Girls' primary were subjected to a barrage of abuse from a group of loyalist . Belfast is home to the Stormont cricket ground since 1949 and was the venue for the Irish cricket team's first ever One Day International against England in 2006.[234]. The voting age population is 42.4% male and 57.6% female. Belfast remains the largest council by population with 345,400 people in 2021 while Fermanagh and Omagh has the smallest council by population with 116,800 people in 2021. Since the ending of the region's conflict tourism has boomed in Northern Ireland, greatly aided by low cost. [122] A history of the development of these structures can be found at the Peacewall Archive. [99] In 2008 a process was proposed for the removal of the 'peace walls'. In the period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Belfast has begun a social, economic and cultural transformation giving it a growing international cultural reputation. Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, to the south of the city centre, attracts thousands of visitors each year to its International Rose Garden. Black taxis are common in the city, operating on a share basis in some areas. Weatherall, Norman (text) and Evans, David (paintings) 2002, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 00:22. With the undertaking of Plantation, Belfast was established as a town in 1613 by Sir Arthur Chichester. The zoo also carries out important conservation work and takes part in European and international breeding programmes which help to ensure the survival of many species under threat. Numerous events take place throughout including festivals such as Rose Week and special activities such as bird watching evenings and great beast hunts. It is home to Botanic Gardens and the Ulster Museum, which was reopened in 2009 after major redevelopment. One of Northern Ireland's two community TV stations, NvTv, is based in the Cathedral Quarter of the city. When the Titanic was built in Belfast in 19111912, Harland and Wolff had the largest shipyard in the world. Information on Census 2021 in Northern Ireland. The Census 2021 population is recorded at 1,903,175 people, up from 1,810,863 people in 2011. There are currently five weather observing stations in the Belfast area: Helen's Bay, Stormont, Newforge, Castlereagh, and Ravenhill Road. [160] It provided a market for the surrounding countryside and the natural inlet of Belfast Lough gave the city its own port. What percentage of Belfast, Maine residents are senior citizens? In 192021, as the island of Ireland was partitioned, up to 500 people were killed in disturbances in Belfast, the bloodiest period of strife in the city until the Troubles of the late 1960s onwards. Published by D. Clark , Dec 21, 2022 In 2021, Belfast was the local district that had the highest number of inhabitants in Northern Ireland, with an estimated population of 345,000, followed. Further information about the population structure: Males Females 48.7% 51.3% 0-17 years 18-64 years 65+ years 21.3% 63.9% Males Females See also: Belfast - with settlements Located in: Northern Ireland country Bus and rail public transport in Northern Ireland is operated by subsidiaries of Translink. [228], Belfast was the home town of former Manchester United player George Best, the 1968 European Footballer of the Year, who died in November 2005. The population of Belfast was 345,418 in 2021. Connolly, S.J. Most of their victims were Catholics with no links to the Provisional IRA. 12 January 2022. [195] A road improvement-scheme in Belfast began early in 2006, with the upgrading of two junctions along the Westlink dual-carriageway to grade-separated standard. 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". This is an increase from 2011, when 54,200 people resident in Northern Ireland (or 3% of our population) held a non-UK/Ireland passport only. NISRA released the first phase of main statistics from Census 2021 on 22 September 2022. In December 1971, 15 people, including two children, were killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) bombed McGurk's Bar, the greatest loss of life in a single incident in Belfast. The population was just under 1.4 million in 1821 and grew to 1.7 million in the next twenty years. Northern Ireland Railways provides suburban services along three lines running through Belfast's northern suburbs to Carrickfergus, Larne and Larne Harbour, eastwards towards Bangor and south-westwards towards Lisburn and Portadown. 41.21% had no or low (Level 1*) qualifications. "New Developments in Irish Population History, 17001850", "Belfast City Council. The Giant's Ring, a 5,000-year-old henge, is located near the city,[23] and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen in the surrounding hills. 2021 in Belfast, Northern . To sign up to our FREE newsletters, see here. [64] Belfast is represented in both the British House of Commons and in the Northern Ireland Assembly. [192]Musgrave Park Hospital in south Belfast specialises in orthopaedics, rheumatology, sports medicine and rehabilitation. Since 2001, boosted by increasing numbers of tourists, the city council has developed a number of cultural quarters. In addition to the shipyards and the Shorts Brothers aircraft factory, the Belfast Blitz severely damaged or destroyed more than half the city's housing stock, devastated the old town centre around High Street, and killed over a thousand people. 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. Also published today are results for the national identity (person based) classification, which relates to the specific single identity or specific multiple identities people recorded in Census 2021. Sectarian tensions were heightened by movements to repeal the Acts of Union (which followed the 1798 rebellion) and to restore a Parliament in Dublin. Last edited on 17 February 2023, at 00:22, communal violence in the city during partition, Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies), Northern Ireland Assembly Elections in 2022, List of tallest buildings and structures in Belfast, Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail, "Standard Area Measurements (2016) for Administrative Areas in the United Kingdom", "Where are the largest cities in Britain? The remaining 9.3% or 177,400 people neither belonged to nor were brought up in any religion. [170] Segregation has been present throughout the history of Belfast but has been maintained and increased by each outbreak of violence in the city. [46] These opposing groups in this conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively, although they are also loosely referred to as 'nationalist' and 'unionist'. When early in the American War of Independence, Belfast Lough was raided by the privateer John Paul Jones, the townspeople assembled their own Volunteer militia. Rapid industrial growth in the nineteenth century drew in landless Catholics from outlying rural and western districts, most settling to the west of the town. Belfast's population is diversifying. [104] Windsor House, 262ft (80m) high, has 23 floors and is the second tallest building (as distinct from structure) in Ireland. The consultants said Belfast does not have the population to support a light rail system, suggesting that investment in bus-based rapid transit would be preferable. The metro area population of Edinburgh in 2020 was 537,000, a 1.13% increase from 2019. All local councils across NI showed an ageing population over the period 2011 to 2021. Census 2021 also shows us that the population is also becoming more diverse. In one raid, in 1941, German bombers killed around one thousand people and left tens of thousands homeless. . The number of one person households is now the highest on record, a change driven at least in part by our ageing population. [230], Belfast is home to over twenty Gaelic football and hurling clubs. [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. The proportion of the population with No religion ranges from 30.6% in Ards and North Down to 7.8% in Mid Ulster. In contrast, 15.9% or 302,200 people did not hold a passport. [225], Belfast has several notable sports teams playing a diverse variety of sports such as football, Gaelic games, rugby, cricket, and ice hockey. Lloyd George, Parnell and Patrick Pearse all attended political rallies there. [27] Chichester also had Belfast Castle rebuilt at this time. There were 6.4million visitors in 2005, which was a growth of 8.5% from 2004. [75] The Castlereagh Hills overlook the city on the southeast. 43.32% indicated that they had a British national identity, 35.10% had an Irish national identity and 26.92% had a Northern Irish national identity. [172] Over the past 10 years employment has grown by 16.4%, compared with 9.2% for the UK as a whole. [108][109] Finally, the Titanic Quarter covers 0.75km2 (185 acres) of reclaimed land adjacent to Belfast Harbour, formerly known as Queen's Island. [14], The compilers of Ulster-Scots use various transcriptions of local pronunciations of "Belfast" (with which they sometimes are also content)[15][16] including Bilfawst,[17][18] Bilfaust[19] or Baelfawst. By the early 19th century, Belfast was a major port. [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. Irish Traveller, Arab, Pakistani and Roma ethnicities also each constituted 1,500 people or more. In 200405, 5.9million people visited Belfast, a 10% increase from the previous year, and spent 262.5million.[213]. There are "huge amounts" of foreign investment coming into the country. This increasing diversity is evident to a greater or lesser degree across all 11 local councils. [244], The Belfast Education and Library Board was established in 1973 as the local council responsible for education, youth and library services within the city. Belfast is a relatively car-dependent city by European standards, with an extensive road network including the 22.5 miles (36km) M2 and M22 motorway route. Belfast's 2023 population is now estimated at 696,537. This rise slowed and peaked around the start of the Troubles with the 1971 census showing almost 600,000 people in the Belfast Urban Area. Named after RMS Titanic, which was built here in 1912,[68] work has begun which promises to transform some former shipyard land into "one of the largest waterfront developments in Europe". Weather station is located 2.5 miles (4.0km) from the Belfast city centre. The Jordanstown campus, just seven miles (11km) from Belfast city centre concentrates on engineering, health and social science. Many ex-NHL players have featured on the Giants roster, none more famous than world superstar Theo Fleury. [114][115] The dome is 173ft (53m) high and figures above the door state "Hibernia encouraging and promoting the Commerce and Arts of the City".[116]. This service is known as the Belfast Suburban Rail system. [56], An enduring physical legacy of the conflict are the extensive "peace lines" (or "peace walls") that continue to separate loyalist from republican districts. [127] The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club was founded in 1863 and is administered by National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland. [41] Road construction schemes, including the terminus of the M1 and the Westlink severed the streets linking north and west Belfast to the city centre, for example the dockland community of Sailortown. 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. In 2021 the number of people with a white ethnic group was 1,837,600 (96.6% of the population). When Swift was living at Lilliput Cottage near the bottom of Belfast's Limestone Road, he imagined that the Cavehill resembled the shape of a sleeping giant safeguarding the city. Taking in Dublin Road, Great Victoria Street, Shaftesbury Square and Bradbury Place, it contains some of the best bars and restaurants in the city. There are no less than twelve other minor rivers in and around Belfast, namely the Blackstaff, the Colin, the Connswater, the Cregagh, the Derriaghy, the Forth, the Knock, the Legoniel, the Loop, the Milewater, the Purdysburn and the Ravernet.[73]. All four extend beyond the city boundaries to include parts of Castlereagh, Lisburn and Newtownabbey districts. The Forest of Belfast is a partnership between government and local groups, set up in 1992 to manage and conserve the city's parks and open spaces. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. He said there was a "fair chance" that trend had continued and was also a contributory factor to the falling Protestant population recorded in the latest census. Stena Line also operates a route to Liverpool. Like all areas of the island of Ireland outside of the Gaeltacht, the Irish language in Belfast is not that of an unbroken intergenerational transmission. 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