Official statistics · 4 of 6 measures compare directly
Antrim and Newtownabbey and Ards and North Down compared
Every measure Civometry publishes for both areas, side by side. Each figure is its publisher’s own for the period named beside it, and the difference between the two is stated in the middle. Neither area is called better: which direction counts as better depends on what you are asking, and the page does not decide that for you. Where the two figures are not comparable — a different period, or nothing published for one side — the row says so instead of showing a difference.
Antrim and Newtownabbey
N09000001 · Northern Ireland
Ards and North Down
N09000011 · Northern Ireland
Getting better or worse
−1
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
The same in both
−1
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
Population
No published figure
NISRA: Mid-year population estimates for Northern Ireland, administrative area totals
No published figure for Antrim and Newtownabbey.
No published figure
NISRA: Mid-year population estimates for Northern Ireland, administrative area totals
Average house price
£206,120
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
£21,155 more in Ards and North Down
£227,275
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
All claimants
2.2%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
0.2 percentage points higher in Ards and North Down
2.4%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
All recorded crime
45
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables
11 more in Antrim and Newtownabbey
34
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables
House price to pay ratio
No published figure
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
No published figure for Antrim and Newtownabbey.
No published figure
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
In one sentence
In the latest published figures, average house price was £206,120 in Antrim and Newtownabbey and £227,275 in Ards and North Down (June 2026); all claimants was 2.2% in Antrim and Newtownabbey and 2.4% in Ards and North Down (July 2026); and all recorded crime was 45 in Antrim and Newtownabbey and 34 in Ards and North Down (Year ending March 2025). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
In the latest published figures, average house price was £206,120 in Antrim and Newtownabbey and £227,275 in Ards and North Down (June 2026); all claimants was 2.2% in Antrim and Newtownabbey and 2.4% in Ards and North Down (July 2026); and all recorded crime was 45 in Antrim and Newtownabbey and 34 in Ards and North Down (Year ending March 2025). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
Recorded crime by category
A category-by-category crime comparison needs both areas to have a full, current twelve months in the data.police.uk archive. One of them does not, so it is not shown; the crime rate above, where published, still comes from that archive.
What this comparison rests on
Two figures are only subtracted when they are the same measure over the same period. Populations differ (— and — residents on the latest estimates used here), so counts are shown alongside rates rather than instead of them. Nothing on this page is weighted, indexed or scored: every difference is one published number minus another, and the rows that cannot be compared say why.