Belfast

16°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 7° · 31% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:43Sunset 19:58

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Belfast Centre, United Kingdom

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 410 rated 4–5 ★ (325 top)
• 19 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£184,768 average▲ 7.7% YoY

Across Belfast · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

106 charging locations within ~8 km

• 34 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Lloyds Banking Group (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Claire Hanna

Social Democratic & Labour Party

Belfast South and Mid Down

Source: UK Parliament

No overall control

• SF 22
• DUP 14
• Alli 10
• UUP 2
• SDLP 4
• Oth 8

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

15,465 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

4,015 jobs advertised · £47,605 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time, Beauty Therapist, Database Administrator

Source: Adzuna

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,429 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.4
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Belfast South and Mid Down:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership327 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s284 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Fund NHS access to Omaveloxolone for patients with Friedreich's Ataxia181 local signatures · 7,373 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test126 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership99 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Ormeau Cricket Ground · 0.2 km

  Ormeau Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1867, when North of Ireland played an All England Eleven in a non first-class match. In 1926, the…

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  Havelock House, Belfast · 0.2 km

  Havelock House was a building that was located on the Ormeau Road in Belfast, it was the former headquarters of Wireless Group Ltd, and also UTV, which occupied the building from October 1959 to June 2018. Wireless Gr…

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  Ormeau Road · 0.3 km

  Ormeau Road is a road in south Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. Ormeau Park is adjacent to it. It forms part of the A24.

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  The Hatfield House · 0.4 km

  The Hatfield House is a listed pub in Ormeau Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• Red Lion Pub bombing · 0.4 km

  The Red Lion Pub bombing was a bomb attack on 2 November 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Planted by the Provisional IRA, it exploded in the Red Lion pub on Ormeau Road, killing three people and injuring about 30 ot…

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  Sean Graham bookmakers' shooting · 0.4 km

  On 5 February 1992, there was a mass shooting at the Sean Graham bookmaker's shop on the Lower Ormeau Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group,…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)