Demographics
Holywood Urban Area is a medium town within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area (BMUA) as classified by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (i.e. with population between 10,000 and 18,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 12,037 people living in Holywood. Of these:
- 19.9% were aged under 16 years and 20.6% were aged 60 and over
- 50.6% of the population were male and 49.4% were female
- 23.0% were from a Catholic background and 68.6% were from a Protestant background
- 3.0% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.
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