March 2017

Did you know that in 2015, 210 men aged 60 years or over got married, which is 2.5% of all men getting married?  In that same year, 88 women aged 60 years or over got married, which is 1.1% of women getting married.

The highest proportions of older people getting married were in North Down and Ards: 4.7% of men, and 2.4% of women who got married were aged 60 years or over.

Information on marriages by age and sex, within District Council Areas, is available on the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service (NINIS).