Editing Portstewart (section)

==Profile==
Portstewart was a popular holiday destination for [[Victorian era|Victorian]] middle-class families. Its long, crescent-shaped seafront promenade is sheltered by rocky headlands. It is a reasonably prosperous town. Most of the town is contained in the Strand electoral ward and this is one of the most affluent areas in Northern Ireland. In a [[deprivation index]] of electoral wards in Northern Ireland the Strand Ward in the town was ranked 570th out of the 582 wards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/Home.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123081824/http://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/home.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 November 2012|title=statistics|first=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research|last=Agency|website=ninis2.nisra.gov.uk}} </ref>

House prices in Portstewart have been amongst the highest in Northern Ireland. According to the [[University of Ulster]]'s ''Quarterly House Price Index'' report, produced in partnership with the [[Bank of Ireland]] and the [[Northern Ireland Housing Executive]], in the fourth quarter of 2010, the North Coast region ([[Coleraine]]/[[Limavady]] area) had higher property prices than those of affluent south [[Belfast]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://news.ulster.ac.uk/podcasts/QHPIFeb2011.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111125052646/http://news.ulster.ac.uk/podcasts/QHPIFeb2011.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 25 November 2011|title= Northern Ireland Quarterly House Price Index Q4 2010|date= 26 September 2011|work= ulster.ac.uk}}</ref>

Portstewart is one of the most integrated towns in Northern Ireland with the religious demographics similar to the population of Northern Ireland as a whole. Community relations are generally good within the town. [[Dominican College, Portstewart|Dominican College]], a Catholic grammar school, is one of the main schools in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dominican-portstewart.org.uk/aims.asp |title=Dominican College (Portstewart): Aims|accessdate=26 August 2013}}</ref>