Ballymena B5
NeighbourhoodWest Mid and East Antrim. 602 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.4 square kilometres.
Gigabit coverage by neighbourhood
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Ballymena B5, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017 is published for the Super Output Areas (2001), whose boundaries differ from this neighbourhood’s, so it has no figure for Ballymena B5. See deprivation across Mid and East Antrim
How Ballymena B5 compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ballymena B5 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ballymena B5 at a rate of 33.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 44.5 per 1,000 people across Ballymena B.
Across Northern Ireland as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 70.2 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 0 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ballymena B5.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (12), anti-social behaviour (3) and drug offences (2).
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 Mid and East Antrim
These figures are published for the whole of Mid and East Antrim, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of Mid and East Antrim and not Ballymena B5 alone. See Mid and East Antrim
Ballymena B5 in brief
Ballymena B5 had 561 usual residents at the census.
In Ballymena B5, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
55.9% of residents in Ballymena B5 were aged 15 to 64 at the census.
32.5% of residents in Ballymena B5 were aged 65 or over at the census.