Mean weekly paid hours where people work, by constituency, Northern Ireland
The mean weekly paid hours of employee jobs in each of Northern Ireland's 18 constituencies, by where the job is, with Northern Ireland, in April of the latest three years, from NISRA's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Northern Ireland
32.4 hours a week
2026
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:17 UTC- 2026
- 2025
Source: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
In order
Ranked by the hub 2026
Every place, the highest figure first. The number before each is the hub's own position in the list, not the publisher's: equal figures share one, marked =.
- 1Mid Ulster34.6 hours a week
- 2South Antrim33.7 hours a week
- 3Upper Barn33.4 hours a week
- 4Fermanagh and South Tyrone33.3 hours a week
- 5East Antrim33.2 hours a week
- 6Belfast South and Mid Down32.9 hours a week
- 7Belfast West32.3 hours a week
- 8Lagan Valley32.1 hours a week
- 9Belfast East31.9 hours a week
- 10South Down31.8 hours a week
- =11Belfast North31.6 hours a week
- =11North Antrim31.6 hours a week
- 13Foyle31.5 hours a week
- 14North Down30.9 hours a week
- 15East Londonderry30.7 hours a week
- 16Newry and Armagh30.6 hours a week
- 17West Tyrone30.5 hours a week
- 18Strangford29.3 hours a week
Data table
19 rows
| Area | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Ulster N05000010 | 34.6 hours a week | 33.6 hours a week | 36.0 hours a week |
| South Antrim N05000014 | 33.7 hours a week | 34.1 hours a week | 33.6 hours a week |
| Upper Barn N05000017 | 33.4 hours a week | 33.8 hours a week | 32.9 hours a week |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone N05000007 | 33.3 hours a week | 33.8 hours a week | 32.5 hours a week |
| East Antrim N05000005 | 33.2 hours a week | 33.8 hours a week | 32.9 hours a week |
| Belfast South and Mid Down N05000003 | 32.9 hours a week | 33.5 hours a week | 33.7 hours a week |
| Belfast West N05000004 | 32.3 hours a week | 32.5 hours a week | 33.1 hours a week |
| Lagan Valley N05000009 | 32.1 hours a week | 32.6 hours a week | 31.3 hours a week |
| Belfast East N05000001 | 31.9 hours a week | 33.2 hours a week | 33.6 hours a week |
| South Down N05000015 | 31.8 hours a week | 29.7 hours a week | 31.0 hours a week |
| Belfast North N05000002 | 31.6 hours a week | 32.0 hours a week | 32.7 hours a week |
| North Antrim N05000012 | 31.6 hours a week | 32.3 hours a week | 32.4 hours a week |
| Foyle N05000008 | 31.5 hours a week | 32.3 hours a week | 31.7 hours a week |
| North Down N05000013 | 30.9 hours a week | 31.4 hours a week | 29.9 hours a week |
| East Londonderry N05000006 | 30.7 hours a week | 31.1 hours a week | 31.5 hours a week |
| Newry and Armagh N05000011 | 30.6 hours a week | 32.1 hours a week | 31.5 hours a week |
| West Tyrone N05000018 | 30.5 hours a week | 31.8 hours a week | 31.3 hours a week |
| Strangford N05000016 | 29.3 hours a week | 29.1 hours a week | 29.7 hours a week |
| Northern Ireland | 32.4 hours a week | 32.8 hours a week | 32.8 hours a week |
Map
2026 · 18 areas, each shaded by the fifth of the areas its figure falls in
- 29.3 to 30.9
- 30.9 to 31.6
- 31.6 to 32.3
- 32.3 to 33.3
- 33.3 to 34.6
Boundaries: Constituency boundaries, Jul 2024, from the geography spine. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024.
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Check it yourself
- https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/labour-market-and-social-welfare/annual-survey-hours-and-earnings
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 12:16 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://ws-data.nisra.gov.uk/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/TWPHWAA24/JSON-stat/2.0/enSHA-256 29c9a8184483074f6a0ed6f45bc4567245c4ece2ed9577b2cd56fcd5ba8ba4ec · 23,668 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:17 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 12:17 UTC; 57 of 57 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T12:16:25Z; 1 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 1 of 1 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 57 of 57 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 57 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 57 of 57 figures match exactly after downloading 1 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | PxStat matrix is current | latest period 2026 ended -60 days before retrieval (limit 330); matrix updated 2026-10-22T9:30:00.000Z |
| Pass | PxStat CSV edition agrees | 57 of 57 figures match https://ws-data.nisra.gov.uk/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/TWPHWAA24/CSV/1.0/en, where 1539 of 1539 cells equal the JSON-stat edition |
| Pass | Each mean lies between its groups' | in 114 of 114 cases the mean hours worked of all employees lies between the full-time and part-time figures, or the females' and males', of the same area and year |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/labour-market-and-social-welfare/annual-survey-hours-and-earnings – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Paid hours a week of employee jobs on adult rates whose pay was not affected by absence, full-time and part-time, in April, by the postcode of the workplace: the hours of jobs in the constituency, not of the people who live there. The survey is a sample of jobs, so a constituency's figure is less certain than Northern Ireland's, and NISRA leaves out a figure too small to be reliable.
- The mean is the hours of all jobs over their number, so a few jobs with long hours raise it.