O'Neill
WardEast Antrim and Newtownabbey. About 3,010 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in O'Neill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How O'Neill compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is O'Neill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in O'Neill at a rate of 119.2 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, 38 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in O'Neill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (134), anti-social behaviour (99) and criminal damage and arson (38).
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 O'Neill alone. See Antrim and Newtownabbey
O'Neill in brief
O'Neill had 3,043 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in O'Neill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In O'Neill, 97.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
67.2% of residents in O'Neill were aged 15 to 64 at the census.