Abbey
WardEast Antrim and Newtownabbey. About 3,396 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 28% of people in Abbey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Abbey compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Abbey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Abbey at a rate of 90.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 61.3 per 1,000 people across Antrim and Newtownabbey.
Across Northern Ireland as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 70.2 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 32 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Abbey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (110), violence and sexual offences (71) and criminal damage and arson (41).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Antrim and Newtownabbey
These figures are published for the whole of Antrim and Newtownabbey, not for each ward, so they describe all of Antrim and Newtownabbey and not Abbey alone. See Antrim and Newtownabbey
Abbey in brief
Abbey had 2,928 usual residents at the census.
About 28% of people in Abbey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Abbey, 99.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
65.6% of residents in Abbey were aged 15 to 64 at the census.