Newtownabbey

13°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 8° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:41Sunset 20:00

13h 19m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Belfast Centre, United Kingdom

236 food businesses within 2 miles

• 198 rated 4–5 ★ (169 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£206,120 average▲ 8.8% YoY

Across Antrim and Newtownabbey · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 155.9p · Asda (12 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 180.9p · Asda (12 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

74 charging locations within ~8 km

• 23 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 320 kW
• Nearest: Valley Leisure Centre (1.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

John Finucane

Sinn Féin

Belfast North

Source: UK Parliament

No overall control

• SF 9
• DUP 13
• Alli 8
• UUP 6
• SDLP 1
• Oth 3

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

5,355 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

417 jobs advertised · £36,284 avg

e.g. Tennis Tutors Required Newtownabbey, Customer Service Coordinator, Customer Service Advisor

Source: Adzuna

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,664 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Belfast North:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership297 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s248 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office176 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test167 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth143 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

• Whitehouse Primary School · 0.1 km

  Whitehouse Primary School is a controlled primary school in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. It was destroyed in an arson attack on 18 July 2009. After the school was destroyed, its students were temporarily housed in…

• Newtownabbey Community High School · 0.1 km

  Newtownabbey Community High School was a secondary school in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.

• Whitehouse railway station (Northern Ireland) · 0.3 km

  Whitehouse railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Belfast to Ballymena in Northern Ireland.

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  Newtownabbey Borough Council · 0.3 km

  Newtownabbey Borough Council was a Local Authority in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, on the north shore of Belfast Lough just immediately north of Belfast. The Council merged with Antrim Borough Council in April 2…

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  Merville Garden Village · 0.5 km

  Merville Garden Village is a housing estate located at Shore Road, Drumnadrough, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland created by structural and landscape architect Edward Prentice Mawson. It was completed in…

• Merville House · 0.5 km

  Merville House is a Georgian manor house in Newtownabbey near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since 2006, it has a blue plaque commemorating ham and bacon entrepreneur Sir Edward Coey, who resided there in the 19th century.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)