Cultra
Cultra is a settlement in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. It has 2 schools, 1 GP clinic, 21 parks and greens, and 5 restaurants and cafés, with 1 bus stop and the nearest railway station being Marino, 0.3 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Cultra area — all from official UK open data.
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- County
- Ards and North Down
Weather
13°COvercast
- Today: 15° / 8° · 32% rain
- Tomorrow: 17° / 10° · Overcast
Source: WeatherAPI
Daylight
Sunrise 06:43Sunset 19:57
13h 14m of daylight today
Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec
Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk
Air quality
26US AQI · Good
Main pollutant: ozone
Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom
Food hygiene
91 food businesses within 2 miles
- 79 rated 4–5 ★ (65 top)
- 0 rated 0–2 (poor)
Source: Food Standards Agency
Buses & trains
- 0 bus stops within ~½ mile
Source: OpenStreetMap
House prices
Fuel prices
- Cheapest petrol: 152.7p · Asda (9.4 km)
- Cheapest diesel: 172.7p · Asda (9.6 km)
2 stations within ~8 miles
Source: CMA fuel price scheme
EV charging
51 charging locations within ~8 km
- 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
- Fastest nearby: 320 kW
- Nearest: The Culloden Hotel and Spa (1 km)
Source: Open Charge Map
Your MP
Alex Easton
Independent
North Down
Recent votes:
- NoDraft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots
- NoDraft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026
- AyeOpposition Day: Early release of prisoners
- NoDraft Employment Tribunals Extension of Jurisdiction (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026
Source: UK Parliament
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
Local businesses
5,870 active business enterprises in the area
Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)
Local economy
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
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 North Down:
- Do not ban social media for under 16s348 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
- Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership306 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
- Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases283 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
- Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office227 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
- Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test144 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06
Notable places nearby
Marino railway station (Northern Ireland) · 0.3 kmMarino railway station is a railway station in the townland of Ballycultra in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Cultra railway station · 0.8 kmCultra railway station is a railway station in the townland of Ballycultra in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. It serves the Cultra residential area and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
Result (schooner) · 1.0 kmResult is a three-masted cargo schooner built in Carrickfergus in 1893. She was a working ship until 1967, and served for a short time in the Royal Navy as a Q-ship during World War I. She currently rests on land at t…
Ulster Folk and Transport Museums · 1.1 kmBoth the Ulster Folk Museum and Ulster Transport Museum are situated in Cultra, Northern Ireland, about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of the city of Belfast. Now operating as two separate museums, the Folk Museum endeav…
Holywood Priory · 1.2 kmHolywood Priory is a medieval monastic ruin in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century on the site of an earlier monastery, it was later used by the Franciscans and dissol…
- Holywood Rudolf Steiner School · 1.2 km
The Holywood Rudolf Steiner School is a Waldorf school located in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland which teaches children using methods inspired by Rudolf Steiner. The school is co-educational, serving ages 3…
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)