Gortalee
WardSouth east Mid and East Antrim. About 3,628 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 37% of people in Gortalee live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Gortalee compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Gortalee safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gortalee at a rate of 45.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 58.7 per 1,000 people across Mid and East Antrim.
Across Northern Ireland as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 70.2 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 14 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gortalee.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (70), anti-social behaviour (49) and other crime (15).
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 ward, so they describe all of Mid and East Antrim and not Gortalee alone. See Mid and East Antrim
Gortalee in brief
Gortalee had 3,354 usual residents at the census.
About 37% of people in Gortalee live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Gortalee, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
67.1% of residents in Gortalee were aged 15 to 64 at the census.