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
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
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:
- Do not ban social media for under 16s324 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
- Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership242 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
- Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office163 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
- Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test162 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
- Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth143 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06
Notable places nearby
Randalstown · 0.6 kmRandalstown 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 kmRandalstown 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 kmCookstown 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)
Nearby towns
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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.