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Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon · report

People and new homes in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

In 2025 the population grew by 561 while 857 homes were finished: 0.7 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
0.7
Population change, 2025
+561

Population change and homes finished in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

The population's yearly change, net migration plus births minus deaths (ONS), against homes finished (MHCLG and the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland statistics).

Population change

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YearPopulation change
2025561
20241,267
20231,556
20221,143
20211,360
20201,411
20192,356
20182,507
20172,038
20162,740
20152,453
20142,362
20131,692
20122,242

Homes finished

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YearHomes finished
2025857
2024882
2023745
2022955
20211,101
2020807
20191,042
20181,098
2017892
2016844
2015—
2014—
2013—
2012—

Year by year

YearNet migrationBirths minus deathsPopulation changeHomes finished
2012+569+1,673+2,242—
2013+172+1,520+1,692—
2014+914+1,448+2,362—
2015+1,095+1,358+2,453—
2016+1,268+1,472+2,740844
2017+741+1,297+2,038892
2018+1,327+1,180+2,5071,098
2019+1,116+1,240+2,3561,042
2020+365+1,046+1,411807
2021+591+769+1,3601,101
2022+208+935+1,143955
2023+866+690+1,556745
2024+855+412+1,267882
2025−14+575+561857

Births, deaths and moves are ONS's mid-year estimates, each year to 30 June, counting moves to and from the rest of the UK and abroad. Homes finished are new homes completed in the calendar year, from each nation's house-building statistics; England's run below its net additions. A home houses a household, not a person: two or three new residents per new home is roughly one home per new household.

Other reports for Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

Figures for Northern Ireland: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon has no reliable figures of its own.

At the average sale price, a home costs £186,993. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £863 a month. The UK sets no cap on the payment; no more than 15% of new mortgages may lend over 4.5 times income.

Payment, two incomes
14%
Payment, one income
28%

Figures for United Kingdom: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon has no reliable figures of its own.

Owning the average home costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average of all private tenancies. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
£1,406
Owning per month
£1,286

31.1% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
696
Per 1,000 residents
3.1

Figures for United Kingdom: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q1 2025.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
1.8%

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2005. That fall began in Q3 2007.

Deepest fall
−60.1%
Recovery from the low
Not yet

4.2% of the 88,383 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
4.2%
Empty homes
3,741