village
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and
townland
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in
County Down
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,
Northern Ireland
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. It is on the Ravernet River, about 3 km south of
Lisburn
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and about 3 km northeast of
Hillsborough
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. Nearby is
Sprucefield
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and the
M1 motorway
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Ravernet is classified as a small village or hamlet by the
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
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(NISRA) (i.e. with population between 500 and 1,000 people).
On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 559 people living in Ravernet. Of these:
*28.6% were aged under 16 years and 8.2% were aged 60 and over
*50.8% of the population were male and 49.2% were female
*4.7% were from a
Catholic
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background and 90.1% were from a
Protestant
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background
*2.6% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed