Comber

11°COvercast

• Today: 16° / 7° · 31% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:43Sunset 19:57

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom

59 food businesses within 2 miles

• 50 rated 4–5 ★ (42 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

• Cheapest petrol: 152.7p · Asda (5.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 177.7p · Asda (5.2 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

24 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Comber REC (0.1 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)

20 jobs advertised · £35,611 avg

e.g. Financial Reporting Manager, Recruitment Administrator (12 month contract), Online Drawing Tutor - Part Time

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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  Comber Whiskey · 0.1 km

  Comber Whiskey was an Irish whiskey distilled in Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was last distilled in 1956. However, some reserves were discovered and bottled in the 1980s as "Old Comber" and some of these…

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  Comber · 0.1 km

  Comber is a historic market town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies 5 miles (8 km) south of Newtownards, at the northern end of Strangford Lough. It is situated in the townland of Town Parks, the civil parish o…

• The Green, Comber · 0.5 km

  The Green is a cricket ground in Comber, Northern Ireland and the home of North Down Cricket Club. The ground was established in 1857 and had capacity of 2000 in early days. The two ends are Pavilion End and Mount Ale…

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  Comber railway station · 0.7 km

  Comber railway station was on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Newcastle in Northern Ireland.

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  Drumhirk · 2.5 km

  Drumhirk is a rural townland between Ballygowan and Comber in County Down, Northern Ireland. It has an area of 515.2 acres (2.085 km2). It is situated in the civil parish of Kilmood, the Poor Law Union of Newtownards…

• Ards (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) · 3.2 km

  Ards was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)