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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
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

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

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

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

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

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:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Marino railway station (Northern Ireland) · 0.3 km

    Marino railway station is a railway station in the townland of Ballycultra in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland.

  • Cultra railway station · 0.8 km

    Cultra 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 km

    Result 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 km

    Both 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 km

    Holywood 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)