Whitehouse
Whitehouse is a town or village in Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, with a population of around 10,000. It has around 6 schools, 3 GP surgeries, 5 pharmacies, 6 supermarkets, 17 parks and greens, and around 34 restaurants and cafés. There are 26 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Whiteabbey, 2.6 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Whitehouse area — all from official UK open data.
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- County
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
Weather
9°CHeavy rain
- Today: 13° / 3° · 91% rain
- Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby
Source: WeatherAPI
Daylight
Sunrise 08:10Sunset 18:05
9h 55m of daylight today
Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec
Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk
Air quality
21US AQI · Good
Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)
Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland
Food hygiene
296 food businesses within 2 miles
- 244 rated 4–5 ★ (207 top)
- 4 rated 0–2 (poor)
Source: Food Standards Agency
Buses & trains
- 0 bus stops within ~½ mile
Source: OpenStreetMap
House prices
£206,120 average▲ 8.8% YoY
Across Antrim and Newtownabbey · to 2026-07
Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)
EV charging
84 charging locations within ~8 km
- 27 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
- Fastest nearby: 320 kW
- Nearest: Valley Leisure Centre (1.6 km)
Source: Open Charge Map
Council control
No overall control
- SF 9
- DUP 13
- Alli 8
- UUP 6
- SDLP 1
- Oth 3
Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)
Amenities nearby
Local businesses
5,460 active business enterprises in the area
Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)
Local economy
2.3% 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
Wellbeing
- 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
Local petitions
Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Belfast North:
- Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth143 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
- Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings123 local signatures · 11,850 nationwide
- End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately98 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
- Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases66 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
- Make statutory maternity pay 90% of wage for first 12 weeks & minimum wage after62 local signatures · 58,157 nationwide
Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05
Notable places nearby
- Hazelwood Integrated College · 0.4 km
Hazelwood Integrated College is an integrated secondary school in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The school's students are aged from 11 to 18 years. As of September 2018, the school's principal was Ms…
- Greencastle railway station · 0.5 km
Greencastle railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Belfast to Ballymena in Northern Ireland.
- Lesley Abbeycentre · 0.7 km
Lesley Abbeycentre, formerly known as the Abbey Centre, is a shopping centre in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
- Merville House · 0.7 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.
Merville Garden Village · 0.7 kmMerville 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…
- Whitehouse railway station (Northern Ireland) · 0.9 km
Whitehouse railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Belfast to Ballymena in Northern Ireland.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)