[201], In April 2008, the Department for Regional Development reported on a plan for a light-rail system, similar to that in Dublin. 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On census day 2021, there were 768,810 occupied households in Northern Ireland, up 9.3% from the 703,275 recorded ten years earlier. Rivers of Belfast". It became a city by royal charter in 1888. Belfast's population is evenly split between its Protestant and Catholic residents. A seasonal sailing to Douglas, Isle of Man is operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Today, Belfast is Northern Ireland's educational and commercial hub. A decision as to the outcome was to be made by a United States district court judge. [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. [254], There is a tourist information centre located at Donegall Square North.[255]. 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 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. Sectarian tension was not in itself unique to Belfast: it was shared with Liverpool and Glasgow, cities that following the Great Famine had also experienced large-scale Irish Catholic immigration. [231] Casement Park in west Belfast, home to the Antrim county teams, has a capacity of 32,000 which makes it the second largest Gaelic Athletic Association ground in Ulster. [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. [52] The British Army, first deployed on the streets in August 1969, was also responsible for civilian deaths. Football clubs active in Belfast include: Linfield, Glentoran, Crusaders, Cliftonville, Donegal Celtic, Harland & Wolff Welders, Dundela, Knockbreda, PSNI, Queen's University, Newington, Sport & Leisure and Brantwood. In November 2011, Belfast became the smallest city to host the MTV Europe Music Awards. More than 100,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since the 1970s. [72] Superseded by the River Lagan as the more important river in the city, the Farset now languishes in obscurity, under High Street. [12][13] This area became the hub around which the original settlement developed. 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. The Census 2021 population is recorded at 1,903,175 people, up from 1,810,863 people in 2011. 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. "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]. The Belfast Marathon is run annually on May Day, and attracted 20,000 participants in 2011. Population growth was proportionately greatest in Lisburn and Castlereagh with 149,100 people in 2021, up 10.6% from 2011. [42], The cost was borne by the British Exchequer. [150], The highest levels of segregation in the city are in west Belfast with many areas greater than 90% Catholic. The discrete capital value system means rates bills are determined by the capital value of each domestic property as assessed by the Valuation and Lands Agency. [210] In 2003, Belfast had an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 European Capital of Culture. [250], Frommer's, the American travel guidebook series, listed Belfast as the only United Kingdom destination in its Top 12 Destinations to Visit in 2009. The census happens only once every 10 years. Sign up to our FREE newsletter. Demographics", "Comparative Demography Profile: Belfast District Council, Northern Ireland", "Area Profile of Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area (BMUA)", "An analytical look at religious background and residential segregation in Belfast", "Population Density: QS102NI (administrative geographies)", "Revealed: Northern Ireland's 10 most deprived areas", "Ethnic Diversity: Segregation in Belfast. [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]. Indeed, the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin has indicated additional demand for passports from people living here in Northern Ireland," he said. [230], Belfast is home to over twenty Gaelic football and hurling clubs. 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". 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. Since 2001, boosted by increasing numbers of tourists, the city council has developed a number of cultural quarters. [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. The Jordanstown campus, just seven miles (11km) from Belfast city centre concentrates on engineering, health and social science. In 2019 there was also an increase in black, Hispanic, and other non-white races. The new hotels have helped to increase a further 1,000 bedrooms in the city. Many ex-NHL players have featured on the Giants roster, none more famous than world superstar Theo Fleury. [186], Power is provided from a number of power stations via NIE Networks Limited transmission lines. 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 Population Statistics Section within Census Branch (NISRA) provides accurate, timely, user friendly and easily accessible National Statistics relating to Population Estimates, Projections and Migration for Northern Ireland. [220][221] The Belfast Telegraph was bought by the Dublin-based Independent News & Media group in March 2000.[222]. [225], Belfast has several notable sports teams playing a diverse variety of sports such as football, Gaelic games, rugby, cricket, and ice hockey. [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. 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. For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for Demography of Belfast . Mid Year Population Estimates. The Royal Courts of Justice in Chichester Street are home to Northern Ireland's Supreme Court. [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. 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. 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. The number of people who are British only is down from 722,400 in 2011 to 606,300 in 2021. Colourpoint Books. Throughout the Troubles, Belfast artists continued to express themselves through poetry, art and music. the United Kingdom population is equivalent to 0.87% of the total world population. In 2007, Belfast saw house prices grow by 50%, the fastest rate of growth in the UK. [9], The name Belfast derives from the Irish Bal Feirsde, later spelt Bal Feirste (Irish pronunciation:[bel f()t]). There were 6.4million visitors in 2005, which was a growth of 8.5% from 2004. This position was confirmed in five subsequent council elections, with mayors from Sinn Fin and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), both of whom are nationalist parties, and the cross-community Alliance Party regularly elected since. 2020-based Interim Population Projections for Northern Ireland - figures and tables. 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. Sectarian tensions were heightened by movements to repeal the Acts of Union (which followed the 1798 rebellion) and to restore a Parliament in Dublin. 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. [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. - British & Northern Irish 151,300 people or 8% of our population. [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. The data, published on Thursday, focuses on main language, passports and national identity, which all points to an increasingly diverse population. [11] The area of Belfast Local Government District is 42.31 square miles (109.6km2). Although BT derives from Belfast, the BT postcode area extends across the whole of Northern Ireland.[103]. Information on consultations and the planning of the 2021 Census in Northern Ireland. 2018-based Population Projections for Northern Ireland Statistical Bulletin Charts. This comprised 3 DUP and 1 Sinn Fin. The number of people aged 65 or more rose by over 60,000, to nearly one-third of a million people in Census 2021, a near 25% increase on 2011 and demonstrates the scale of population change due to ageing. [177] Visitor numbers rose by 6% to reach 6.8million in 2006, with tourists spending 324million, an increase of 15% on 2005. The number of people holding an Ireland passport solely or jointly has increased from 375,800 people in 2011 to 614,300, up 63.5% and is consistent with the increasing demand for Ireland passports since the 2016 UK vote to leave the EU. The metro area population of Belfast in 2019 was 627,000, a 0.64% increase from 2018. The team currently plays in the Down Senior County League.[233]. 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). [8], In 2021, 51% of the population was female while 49% was male. 2021 Foreign Terrorist Organization/Executive Order 13224 Group Designations. The metro area population of Edinburgh in 2020 was 537,000, a 1.13% increase from 2019. All councils are more secular in 2021 than they were ten years ago. 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]. [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). [216] The language is heavily promoted in the city and is particularly visible in the Falls Road area, where the signs on both the iconic black taxis and on the public buses are bilingual. They are widely used to express other statistics as a rate and thus enable comparisons across the United Kingdom and other countries. It is likely Catholics will outnumber Protestants by 2021 in Northern Ireland, according to a leading academic. 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. 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