Figures reveal fastest-growing part of Northern Ireland over the past decade
The News Letter can reveal the fastest-growing region of Northern Ireland by far in the past 10 years.
Far more new homes have been completed there in the past 10 years than in any other council area: 9,237 in all.
The News Letter came across the figures from the Department of Finance while researching a story about the shortage of social homes in NI.
The figures cover “new dwelling completions”, both private and social, from April 2016 until April 2026.
After ABC, the area with the next-highest number of new-builds is Lisburn and Castlereagh: 6,928.
The presence of these boroughs at the top of the list is not just because they had the biggest populations to begin with.
ABC’s population is about 223,000 and Lisburn and Castlereagh’s is only 152,000, whilst Belfast, which has 345,000 residents (by far the most of any council), saw just 6,651 new homes built over the last decade.
Here are the figures for everywhere else:
Ards and North Down: 6,194
Antrim and Newtownabbey: 6,192
Newry Mourne and Down: 6,178
Mid Ulster: 6,016
Derry City and Strabane: 5,491
Causeway Coast and Glens: 5,284
Mid and East Antrim: 4,641
Fermanagh and Omagh: 3,476