Ballyrobert

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Looking towards Ballyrobert village along Springwell Road
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Ballyrobert Orange Hall

Ballyrobert (Template:Irish derived place nameTemplate:ErrorTemplate:Category handler)[1] is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is about 4 km south of Ballyclare and has developed around the junction of the Ballyrobert Road and the Mossley Road/The Longshot. It had a population of 870 people in the 2021 census. It was within the Newtownabbey Borough Council area which became the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council in 2015.

Demographics

Ballyrobert is classified as a small village by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with population between 500 and 1,000 people). As of the 2001 census, there were 587 people living in Ballyrobert. Of these:

  • 23.6% were aged under 16 years and 14.6% were aged 60 and over
  • 50.9% of the population were male and 49.1% were female
  • 4.4% were from a Catholic background and 93.5% were from a Protestant background
  • 1.7% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed[2]

Schools

The local school in Ballyrobert, the Thompson Primary School,[3] is for both males and females aged between 4 and 12 years.

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See also

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