Editing Newtownards (section)

==Demography==
{{Historical populations|state=collapsed
|1821|3332
|1831|4442
|1841|6721
|1851|9566
|1861|9542
|1871|9562
|1881|8676
|1891|9197
|1901|9110
|1911|9587
|1926|10149
|1937|19546
|1951|12243
|1961|13083
|1966|12929
|1971|15484
|1981|20531
|1991|24301
|2001|27821
|2011|28050
|2021|29677
|footnote=<ref name="2021 pop">{{cite web |title=Settlement 2015 |url=https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000040 |website=NISRA |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref><ref name=Census2011>{{cite web | url = https://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/AreaProfileReportViewer.aspx?FromAPAddressMulipleRecords=Newtownards@Exact%20match%20of%20location%20name:%20@Exact%20Match%20Of%20Location%20Name:%20%20Newtownards@23? | title = Census 2011 Population Statistics for Newtownards Settlement | publisher = [[Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency]] (NISRA) | access-date = 13 August 2019}} [[File:UKOpenGovernmentLicence.svg|30px]] This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  Open Government Licence v3.0]. © Crown copyright.</ref><ref name=Census2001>{{cite web | url = https://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/PivotGrid.aspx?ds=4840&lh=69&yn=2001&sk=135&sn=Census%202001&yearfilter=2001 | title = Census 2001 Usually Resident Population: KS01 (Settlements) – Table view | page = 5 | publisher = [[Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency]] (NISRA) | access-date = 13 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histpop.org|title=Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website|website=Histpop.org|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/|archive-date=7 May 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>For post 1821 figures, 1813 estimate from Mason's Statistical Survey For a discussion on the accuracy of [[Great Famine (Ireland)|pre-famine]] census returns see [[J. J. Lee (historian)|J. J. Lee]] "On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1981) p.54, in and also New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850 by Joel Mokyr and [[Cormac Ó Gráda]] in ''The Economic History Review, New Series'', Vol. 37, No. 4 (Nov 1984), pp. 473–88.</ref>}}

===2021 Census===
On Census Day (21 March 2021) the usually resident population of Newtownards was 29,677.<ref name="2021 pop"/> Of these:
* 8.70% belong to or were brought up Catholic Christian and 70.97% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and other (non-Catholic) Christian (including Christian related)'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Religion or religion brought up in |url=https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=RELIGION_BELONG_TO_OR_BROUGHT_UP_IN_DVO&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000040 |website=NISRA |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref>
* 72.17% indicated that they had a British national identity,<ref>{{cite web |title=National Identity (British) |url=https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=NAT_ID_BRITISH&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000040 |website=NISRA |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref> 5.91% had an Irish national identity<ref>{{cite web |title=National Identity (Irish) |url=https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=NAT_ID_IRISH_AGG3&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000040 |website=NISRA |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref> and 39.29% had a Northern Irish national identity.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Identity (Northern Irish) |url=https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=NAT_ID_NORTHERN_IRISH_AGG3&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000040 |website=NISRA |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref> Respondents could indicate more than one national identity

===2011 Census===
On Census Day (27 March 2011) the usually resident population of Newtownards was 28,050 accounting for 1.55% of the NI total.<ref name=Census2011/> Of these:
* 98.67% were from the white (including Irish Traveller) ethnic group.
* 8.32% belong to or were brought up Catholic Christian and 79.35% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and other (non-Catholic) Christian (including Christian related)'.
* 76.37% indicated that they had a British national identity, 4.86% had an Irish national identity and 31.39% had a Northern Irish national identity. Respondents could indicate more than one national identity