Belfast

13°CLight rain

• Today: 13° / 3° · 90% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 08:10Sunset 18:05

9h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 411 rated 4–5 ★ (323 top)
• 18 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 2026-07

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)

15,745 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

3,868 jobs advertised · £44,284 avg

e.g. Working Capital Manager, Salesforce Product Owner, Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time

Source: Adzuna

3.9% 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 statutory maternity pay 90% of wage for first 12 weeks & minimum wage after110 local signatures · 58,157 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately96 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills94 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Reform regulation through the GMC to put patient safety and fairness first93 local signatures · 14,694 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth82 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• 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)