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[174] In March 2007, the average house in Belfast cost 91,819, with the average in south Belfast being 141,000. 21 October 2019. [106] The Golden Mile is the name given to the mile between Belfast City Hall and Queen's University. In 200405, 5.9million people visited Belfast, a 10% increase from the previous year, and spent 262.5million.[213]. It became a city by royal charter in 1888. 5.23% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and. What percentage of Belfast, Maine residents are senior citizens? [80] In an average year the warmest day will rise to a temperature of 25.0C (77.0F)[81] with a day of 25.1C (77.2F) or above occurring roughly once every two in three years. 2,731 steps which if climbed twice a week would be equal to climbing Slieve Donard. Segregation has been present throughout the history of Belfast but has been maintained and increased by each outbreak of violence in the city. In particular, the region has a booming tourist industry with record levels of visitors and tourist revenues and has established itself as a significant location for call centres. There are no rail services to cities in other countries of the United Kingdom, due to the lack of a bridge or tunnel connecting Great Britain to the island of Ireland. Shipbuilding was also a key industry; the Harland & Wolff shipyard, which built the RMSTitanic, was the world's largest shipyard. Information about the range of administrative data sources used in the production of population and migration statistics. A major visitor attraction, Titanic Belfast is a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard, opened on 31 March 2012. Want the biggest political stories and analysis sent to you every week? The rebel tradesmen and tenant farmers were defeated north of the town at the Battle of Antrim and to the south at the Battle of Ballynahinch. [53], During the 1970s and 1980s Belfast was one of the world's most dangerous cities. [102], Belfast city centre is divided into two postcode districts, BT1 for the area lying north of the City Hall, and BT2 for the area to its south. The city is flanked on the north and northwest by a series of hills, including Divis Mountain, Black Mountain and Cavehill, thought to be the inspiration for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Queries relating to Census 2021 in Northern Ireland should be directed to the Census Customer Services. Belfast: Directed by Kenneth Branagh. [76] The highest temperature recorded at any official weather station in the Belfast area was 30.8C (87.4F) at Shaw's Bridge on 12 July 1983. [183] The rest of the city's water is sourced from Lough Neagh, via Dunore Water Treatment Works in County Antrim. Queen's University of Belfast is the main university in the city. 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. The most recent example of this conflict was known as the Troubles a civil conflict that raged from the late 1960s to 1998. In 2021, the number of people resident in Northern Ireland who were themselves born in NI was 1,646,300. 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. Belfast: A Profile of the City. 2018-based Population Projections for Northern Ireland. 21 October 2019. [245] In 2006, this board became part of the Education Authority for Northern Ireland. [155] Almost half of those born outside the UK and Ireland live in south Belfast, where they comprise 9.5% of the population. Belfast is divided into four Northern Ireland Assembly and UK parliamentary constituencies: Belfast North, Belfast West, Belfast South and Belfast East. According to the latest census statistics, 26.2% of the residents of Belfast are 65 or older. 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On January 14 the Department of State designated Harakat Sawa'd Misr (HASM) as . [219], Belfast is the home of the Belfast Telegraph, Irish News, and The News Letter, the oldest English-language daily newspaper in the world still in publication. It is home to Northern Ireland's first Acquired Brain Injury Unit, costing 9million and opened by Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in May 2006. The city of Belfast is the provincial capital of Northern Ireland. [167] For several decades, Northern Ireland's fragile economy required significant public support from the British exchequer of up to 4billion per year.[167]. The Giants were founded in 2000 and play their games at the 9,500 capacity SSE Arena, where crowds normally range from 4,000 to 7,000. [189] The Royal Victoria Hospital is an internationally renowned centre of excellence in trauma care and provides specialist trauma care for all of Northern Ireland. [117] Work has started on the taller Obel Tower, which already surpasses the height of Windsor House in its unfinished state. 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. [77] The absolute maximum temperature at the weather station at Stormont is 29.7C (85.5F), set during July 1983. [110], In its 2018 report on Best Places to Live in Britain, The Sunday Times named Ballyhackamore, "the brunch capital of Belfast", as the best place in Northern Ireland. Proportionately the fastest growing group is people with other national identities - typically identities from outside UK and Ireland. Conservationists are celebrating a bumper year for barn owls in Northern Ireland. [131] U2 played here in 1997. 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 area has a large student population and hosts the annual Belfast International Arts Festival each autumn. Thesecond phase of main statistics results from Census 2021are now available. Including the Waterfront Hall and the Odyssey Arena, Belfast has several other venues for performing arts. [8], Belfast has become in recent decades an ethnically diverse city, although this ethnic diversity is not to the same scale as other cities across the United Kingdom. In 1920-21, 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. As Northern Ireland's capital city, Belfast is host to the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont, the site of the devolved legislature for Northern Ireland. Belfast is one of the constituent cities that makes up the Dublin-Belfast corridor region, which has a population of just under 3million. In what the Unionist government understood as its reward for wartime service, London had agreed that parity in taxation between Northern Ireland and Great Britain should be matched by parity in the services delivered. 11,000 Sprinkler heads. The Glider bus service is a new form of transport in Belfast. [146] The population density in 2011 was 24.88 people/hectare (compared to 1.34 for the rest of Northern Ireland). Let us know what you think in the comments below. Elsewhere 634,600 people (33.3%) living here identified solely or along with other national identities as Irish. 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 [105] The Queen's Quarter in south Belfast is named after Queen's University. Taking in Dublin Road, Great Victoria Street, Shaftesbury Square and Bradbury Place, it contains some of the best bars and restaurants in the city. The population of Belfast was 345,418 in 2021. 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). 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. Belfast has four teams in rugby's All-Ireland League: Belfast Harlequins in Division 1B; and Instonians, Queen's University and Malone in Division 2A. On the day he was buried in the city, 100,000 people lined the route from his home on the Cregagh Road to Roselawn cemetery. [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. [161] It was not until industry transformed the linen and shipbuilding trades that the economy and the population boomed. [29] Profits from the trade financed improvements in the town's commercial infrastructure, including the Lagan Canal, new docks and quays, and the construction of the White Linen Hall which together attracted to Belfast the linen trade that had formerly gone through Dublin. The Globalization and World Cities Research Network listed Belfast as a Gamma + global city in 2020. [66] The Lord Mayor's duties include presiding over meetings of the council, receiving distinguished visitors to the city, representing and promoting the city on the national and international stage.[65]. [160] The present city however is a product of the Industrial Revolution. [151] Areas where segregated working-class areas meet are known as interface areas and sometimes marked by peace lines. Apart from London, this was the greatest loss of life in a night raid during the Blitz. While the number of households in Northern Ireland was 768,810. 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. The population was just under 1.4 million in 1821 and grew to 1.7 million in the next twenty years. 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. [177] Visitor numbers rose by 6% to reach 6.8million in 2006, with tourists spending 324million, an increase of 15% on 2005. [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. Demographics", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demography_of_Belfast&oldid=1113127401, Demographics by city in the United Kingdom, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 29 September 2022, at 22:14. [89] Some 13 more frosty nights than Stormont. By the early 19th century, Belfast was a major port. [33] In hopes of French assistance, in 1798 the Society organised a republican insurrection. The Belfast campus has a specific focus on Art and Design and Architecture, and is currently undergoing major redevelopment. 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. Belfast is still a port with commercial and industrial docks, including the Harland & Wolff shipyard, dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline. [6] By the time it was granted city status in 1888, it was a major centre of Irish linen production, tobacco-processing and rope-making. At the beginning of the 20th century Belfast was both the largest producer of linen in the world and also boasted the world's largest shipyard. [220][221] The Belfast Telegraph was bought by the Dublin-based Independent News & Media group in March 2000.[222]. [68], Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company based in Belfast. Northern Ireland's population is divided between mostly-Protestant Unionists, who want to maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United Kingdom, . Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, to the south of the city centre, attracts thousands of visitors each year to its International Rose Garden. After this was; British only 27%, Northern Irish only 17%, British and Northern Irish only 7%, Irish and Northern Irish only 2%, British, Irish and Northern Irish only 2%, British and Irish less than 1% and Other identities with 10%.[8]. Introduced in 2018, it is a bus rapid transit system linking East Belfast, West Belfast and the Titanic Quarter from the City Centre. 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Estimates of the population of Northern Ireland as of 30 June each year by age and sex. On average, it was older 10 years ago and what we've found is that there's more deaths than births in the Protestant population, and that acts to bring the Protestant population down in number. 15,000 - the number of staff and students we will welcome through the new campus- equivalent to the population of Armagh. [43] In addition to the public construction, this provided for universal health care, comprehensive social security, and "revolutionised access" to secondary and further education. [118] The restaurant panels in the Crown Bar were originally made for Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic,[116] built in Belfast. In 2021 the number of people with a white ethnic group was 1,837,600 (96.6% of the population). The 2021 census figures also show show that the percentage of the population brought up as Catholic has overtaken Protestant for the first time. This escalation in segregation, described as a "ratchet effect", has shown little sign of decreasing. The Giants have been league champions 6 times, most recently in the 202122 season. The first Lord Mayor of Belfast was Daniel Dixon, who was elected in 1892. 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. The City Hall was finished in 1906 and was built to reflect Belfast's city status, granted by Queen Victoria in 1888. A 2021 coroner's report found that all those killed had been innocent and that the killings were "without justification". 606km of data cables which laid end to end . 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. Belfast contains most of Northern Ireland's regional specialist centres. 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