Ballywalter

11°CSunny

• Today: 15° / 11° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:42Sunset 19:56

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom

16 food businesses within 2 miles

• 12 rated 4–5 ★ (9 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: HRL Carrowdore (5.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party

Strangford

Source: UK Parliament

No overall control

• DUP 14
• Alli 12
• UUP 8
• SDLP 1
• Oth 5

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

5,870 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2 jobs advertised

e.g. Knowledge Paralegal - Global Financial Markets, Peerpoint Resourcing Manager

Source: Adzuna

2.4% 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

• 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Strangford:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership261 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s259 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings174 local signatures · 11,744 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office172 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test153 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Ballywalter Lifeboat Station · 0.2 km

  Ballywalter Lifeboat Station was located at the pier head at Harbour Road, in Ballywalter, a village located on the east coast of the Ards Peninsula, in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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  Ballywalter · 1.5 km

  Ballywalter is a village or townland and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the east coast of the Ards Peninsula between Donaghadee and Ballyhalbert. Ballywalter was formerly known as Whitkirk as…

• Loch Sunart (sailing ship) · 2.1 km

  Loch Sunart was an iron-hulled sailing ship that was built in Scotland in 1878 for Loch Line's service between Great Britain and Australia. The ship was named after Loch Sunart in Lochaber.

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  Ards Peninsula · 3.6 km

  The Ards Peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the north-east coast of Ireland. It separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel of the Irish Sea. Towns and villages on the peninsula includ…

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  Grey Abbey, Down · 4.8 km

  Grey Abbey is a ruined Cistercian priory in Greyabbey, County Down, Northern Ireland. Currently maintained by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, it is a monument in state care in the townland of Rosemount, on th…

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  Greyabbey · 4.9 km

  Greyabbey or Grey Abbey is a small village, townland and civil parish located on the eastern shores of Strangford Lough, on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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