Ardkeen

Ardkeen is a town or village in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Ardkeen area — all from official UK open data.

Council: Ards and North Down
County: Ards and North Down

Northern Ireland isn’t covered by some Great Britain data sources, so street crime, energy ratings, NHS services, schools, council tax, care ratings, rents, affordability, life expectancy and neighbourhood deprivation aren’t shown here. House prices, weather, air quality, food hygiene, fuel, your MP, council control, petitions and notable places do apply.

Weather

10°CLight rain shower

Today: 11° / 9° · 57% rain
Tomorrow: 16° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 08:08Sunset 18:04

9h 56m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

Food hygiene

3 food businesses within 2 miles

3 rated 4–5 ★ (3 top)
0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Buses & trains

0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

House prices

House-price data isn’t available for this area.

EV charging

2 charging locations within ~8 km

Fastest nearby: 22 kW
Nearest: Castle Street (5.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Council control

No overall control

DUP 14
Alli 12
UUP 8
SDLP 1
Oth 5

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

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

6,005 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,420 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Wellbeing

Life satisfaction7.8
Feeling worthwhile8.0
Happiness yesterday7.7
Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Strangford:

Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings185 local signatures · 11,850 nationwide
Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth131 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately126 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases122 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills112 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

Notable places nearby

Strangford (Assembly constituency) · 2.8 km
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Ards Upper · 3.0 km
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Cloughey Lifeboat Station · 3.1 km
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Ardquin · 3.1 km
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Kirkistown Castle · 4.2 km
Kirkistown Castle is a tower house situated near Cloghy, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Derry, Ballyphilip · 4.2 km
Derry is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyphilip in the barony of Ards Upper, County Down, in Northern Ireland. It is near Portaferry on the Ards Peninsula. The townland has remains of two small ruined churches.