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Randalstown

Randalstown is a town in Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, with a population of around 5,378. It has three schools, two parks and greens, and one restaurant and café, with two bus stops and Antrim railway station 6.7 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Randalstown area — all from official UK open data.

Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
County
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Northern Ireland isn’t covered by some Great Britain data sources, so street crime, energy ratings, NHS services, schools, council tax, care ratings, rents, affordability, life expectancy and neighbourhood deprivation aren’t shown here. House prices, weather, air quality, food hygiene, fuel, your MP, council control, petitions and notable places do apply.

Weather

10°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 15° / 8° · 49% rain
  • Tomorrow: 16° / 11° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:45Sunset 19:59

13h 15m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Ballymena Ballykeel, United Kingdom

Food hygiene

53 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 45 rated 4–5 ★ (38 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Buses & trains

  • 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

House prices

£206,120 average 8.8% YoY

Across Antrim and Newtownabbey · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

EV charging

17 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 400 kW
  • Nearest: John Mulholland Motors LTD-Hyundai (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Council control

No overall control

  • SF 9
  • DUP 13
  • Alli 8
  • UUP 6
  • SDLP 1
  • Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

5,355 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

3 jobs advertised · £21,018 avg

e.g. AVON Representatives wanted in Randalstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland – start today, Bank Support Worker Charitable Programmes, Cleaning Operative

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,664 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.6
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.5
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Antrim:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Randalstown · 0.6 km

    Randalstown is a small town and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, between Antrim and Toome. The town, which contains a prominent disused railway viaduct, lies beside Lough Neagh and the Shane's Castle estat…

  • St Benedict's College, Randalstown · 0.6 km

    St Benedict's College is a secondary school in Randalstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is an 11-16 Catholic, all-ability, co-educational college which mainly serves families from the parishes of Randalstown a…

  • St Olcan's High School · 0.7 km

    St Olcan's High School was a Roman Catholic secondary school in Randalstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The school opened in 1958 within the North Eastern Education and Library Board area.

  • Randalstown railway station · 0.8 km

    Randalstown railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway's Cookstown branch line, which ran from Cookstown Junction to Cookstown in Northern Ireland.

  • Randalstown (Parliament of Ireland constituency) · 1.3 km

    Randalstown was a borough constituency which elected two MPs representing Randalstown, County Antrim, to the Irish House of Commons, the house of representatives of the Kingdom of Ireland. It was disenfranchised by th…

  • Cookstown Junction railway station · 2.3 km

    Cookstown Junction railway station served the townland of Drumsough outside Randalstown in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was a single island platform at the junction of the Cookstown extension to Magherafelt, Co…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Randalstown?
Randalstown is a town in Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local authority.
What is the population of Randalstown?
Randalstown has an approximate settlement population of 5,378.