[28], Reluctant to let valuable crop go to seed, flax growers and linen merchants benefited from a three-way exchange. The city of Belfast is the provincial capital of Northern Ireland. Second World War [ edit] Main article: Belfast Blitz In 2021, the median household income of Belfast households was $55,900. He added that the surge in the number of people holding Irish passports was influenced by Brexit. 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. 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. [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. 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[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 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. Socio-economic areas radiate out from the Central Business District, with a pronounced wedge of affluence extending out the Malone Road and Upper Malone Road to the south. 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 average warmest day at Aldergrove for example will reach a temperature of 25.4C (77.7F),[86] (1.0C [1.8F] higher than Stormont) and 2.1 days[87] should attain a temperature of 25.1C (77.2F) or above in total. Broadcasting only over the Internet is Homely Planet, the Cultural Radio Station for Northern Ireland, supporting community relations.[223]. Information on Census 2021 in Northern Ireland. 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 second phase of main statistics results from Census 202 1 are now available. 5.23% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and. Belfast's two MPs remained nominees of the Chichesters (Marquesses of Donegall). There are also many examples of Edwardian, such as the City Hall, to modern, such as the Waterfront Hall. The population of the United Kingdom was estimated to have been over 67 million in 2021, with almost 9.3 million of these people living in South East England. Information relating to the Population Statistics teams engagement with its users/stakeholders. Belfast is still a port with commercial and industrial docks, including the Harland & Wolff shipyard, dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline. The Globalization and World Cities Research Network listed Belfast as a Gamma + global city in 2020. Belfast remained a small settlement of little importance during the Middle Ages. This is up from 513,400 people (28.4%) in 2011. [236] 96.77% were white (including Irish Traveller) while 3.23% were from an ethnic minority population; 48.82% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic faith and 42.47% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' denomination; and. Belfast: A Profile of the City. The Belfast Giants are a huge brand in Northern Ireland and their increasing stature in the game led to the Belfast Giants playing the Boston Bruins of the NHL on 2 October 2010 at the SSE Arena in Belfast, losing the game 51. [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. [146] The population density in 2011 was 24.88 people/hectare (compared to 1.34 for the rest of Northern Ireland). Initial raids were a surprise as the city was believed to be outside of the range of German bomber planes. [121] The Ulster Hall (18591862) was originally designed for grand dances but is now used primarily as a concert and sporting venue. 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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. As lords of Clandeboye, the O'Neill dynasty were the local Irish power. 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. Conservationists are celebrating a bumper year for barn owls in Northern Ireland. [120] The Lyric Theatre, which re-opened on 1 May 2011 after undergoing a rebuilding programme and is the only full-time producing theatre in Northern Ireland, is where film star Liam Neeson began his career. The data also shows that population ageing has been happening across each of the 11 local councils. The first nationalist Lord Mayor of Belfast was Alban Maginness of the SDLP, in 1997. the United Kingdom population is equivalent to 0.87% of the total world population. The ornately decorated Crown Liquor Saloon, designed by Joseph Anderson in 1876, in Great Victoria Street is one of only two pubs in the UK that are owned by the National Trust (the other is the George Inn, Southwark in London). 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. [199] These are outnumbered by private hire taxis. National Cycle Route 9 to Newry,[208] which will eventually connect with Dublin,[209] starts in Belfast. Rivers of Belfast". Belfast is divided into four Northern Ireland Assembly and UK parliamentary constituencies: Belfast North, Belfast West, Belfast South and Belfast East. Liverpool University Press. 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. 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). [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. [175] In 2004, Belfast had the lowest owner occupation rate in Northern Ireland at 54%. In 1919, workers in all three cities struck for a ten-hour reduction in the working week. [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. Numerous events take place throughout including festivals such as Rose Week and special activities such as bird watching evenings and great beast hunts. During the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, local sunset is before 16:00 while sunrise is around 08:45. One in Belfast and one in Dublin? [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. Population of Northern Ireland 1971-2021 Published by D. Clark , Dec 21, 2022 The population of Northern Ireland reached 1.9 people in 2021, compared with 1.81 million ten years earlier in. 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. Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, to the south of the city centre, attracts thousands of visitors each year to its International Rose Garden. 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]. 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Explanation: For Scotland, the 2021 figures refer to mid-2021 population estimates. On Census Day (27 March 2011) the usually resident population of Belfast Local Government District was 333,871 accounting for 18.44% of the NI total. This is balanced by the summer solstice in June, when the sun sets after 22:00 and rises before 05:00. The rest of the Belfast post town is divided in a broadly clockwise system from BT3 in the north-east round to BT15, with BT16 and BT17 further out to the east and west respectively. 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. [195] It showed that Belfast has 0.70 cars per household compared to figures of 1.18 in the East and 1.14 in the West of Northern Ireland. In 2007, Belfast saw house prices grow by 50%, the fastest rate of growth in the UK. 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. In contrast, the number of people who are Irish only is up from 457,500 in 2011 to 554,400 in 2021. Formed ostensibly for defence of the Kingdom, the Volunteers were soon pressing their own protest against "taxation without representation". 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. Slightly further afield is Aldergrove Airport. [232] In May 2020, the foundation of East Belfast GAA returned Gaelic Games to unionist East Belfast after decades of its absence in the area. [106] The Golden Mile is the name given to the mile between Belfast City Hall and Queen's University. The airport is located northwest of the city, near Lough Neagh, while the George Best Belfast City Airport, which is closer to the city centre by train from Sydenham on the Bangor Line, adjacent to Belfast Lough, offers UK domestic flights and a few European flights. This increasing diversity is evident to a greater or lesser degree across all 11 local councils. [40], At the end of World War II, the Unionist Government undertook programmes of "slum clearance" (the Blitz had exposed the "uninhabitable" condition of much of the city's housing) which involved decanting populations out of mill and factory, and constructing terraced streets into new peripheral housing estates. 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. [101] Major arterial roads (quality bus corridor) into the city include the Antrim Road, Shore Road, Holywood Road, Newtownards Road, Castlereagh Road, Cregagh Road, Ormeau Road, Malone Road, Lisburn Road, Falls Road, Springfield Road, Shankill Road, and Crumlin Road, Four Winds. [155] Almost half of those born outside the UK and Ireland live in south Belfast, where they comprise 9.5% of the population. It is home to Botanic Gardens and the Ulster Museum, which was reopened in 2009 after major redevelopment. [190] It also provides the city's specialist neurosurgical, ophthalmology, ENT, and dentistry services. The Belfast Liverpool route is the busiest domestic flight route in the UK excluding London with 555,224 passengers in 2009. [184] The citizens of Belfast pay for their water in their rates bill. 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 [57][58] They divide communities that account for 14 of the 20 most deprived wards in Northern Ireland. The Ulster University also maintains a campus in the city, which concentrates on fine art, design and architecture. BELFAST BT9 5RR. There are other factors as well but those are the two key things.". The population was just under 1.4 million in 1821 and grew to 1.7 million in the next twenty years. It gives us the most accurate estimate of all the people and. In 2017, the Belfast Interface Project published a study entitled "Interface Barriers, Peacelines & Defensive Architecture" that identified 97 separate walls, barriers and interfaces in Belfast. 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