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Ballydrain

Ballydrain 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 Ballydrain 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

8°COvercast

  • Today: 14° / 7° · 87% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 08:09Sunset 18:04

9h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

Food hygiene

5 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 5 rated 4–5 ★ (4 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.

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 163.7p · Asda (8.6 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.7p · Asda (8.6 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

5 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 75 kW
  • Nearest: Castle Espie Wetland Centre (1.7 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:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Castle Espie · 1.7 km

    Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name. It is…

  • A22 road (Northern Ireland) · 2.2 km

    The A22 is a road in County Down, in Northern Ireland. Its route starts in Dundonald and runs to Comber, forming the main transport corridor connecting Belfast and Comber, a commuter town situated 8 miles outside of t…

  • Lisbane · 2.3 km

    Lisbane is a small village and townland in the parish of Tullynakill and the barony of Castlereagh Lower in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is between Balloo and Comber on the A22 road, 5 kilometres south-east of Co…

  • Nendrum Monastery · 3.1 km

    Nendrum Monastery was a Christian monastery on Mahee Island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland. Medieval records say it was founded in the 5th century, but this is uncertain. The monastery came to an e…

  • Sketrick Castle · 3.9 km

    Sketrick Castle is a castle situated on Sketrick Island near Whiterock, County Down, Northern Ireland. The castle is estimated to date back to the 12th century. Sketrick Castle tower-house and the passage to spring ar…

  • Ards (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) · 4.1 km

    Ards was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Nearby towns

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