Ballyrobert is a small village

Village

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 in County Antrim

County Antrim

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, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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. It is about 4 km south of Ballyclare

Ballyclare

Ballyclare is a small town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 8,770 people in the 2001 Census...

 and has developed around the junction of the Ballyrobert Road and the Mossley Road/The Longshot. It had a population of 587 people in the 2001 Census

United Kingdom Census 2001

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. It is within the Newtownabbey Borough Council

Newtownabbey Borough Council

Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Newtownabbey has a population of over 80,000 and is on the north shore of Belfast Lough just immediately north of Belfast. The Borough was founded in 1958 as a result of an Act of Parliament passed in 1957 and...

 area.

2001 Census

Ballyrobert is classified as a small village by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with population between 500 and 1,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 587 people living in Ballyrobert. Of these:

• 23.6% were aged under 16 years and 14.6% were aged 60 and over
• 50.9% of the population were male and 49.1% were female
• 4.4% were from a Catholic
  Catholic
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   background and 93.5% were from a Protestant
  Protestantism
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  background
• 1.7% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed

For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service

Schools

The local school in Ballyrobert is called Thompson Primary School. Thompson Primary is a fully integrated school for both males and females aged between 4 and 12 years.