Groomsport

Groomsport is a town or village in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. It has 2 schools, 2 parks & greens, 2 restaurants and cafés, and the nearest railway station is Bangor, 3.9 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Groomsport 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

15°CSunny

Today: 15° / 11° · 37% rain
Tomorrow: 15° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:59

13h 19m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom

Food hygiene

68 food businesses within 2 miles

63 rated 4–5 ★ (52 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 (11.1 km)
Cheapest diesel: 172.7p · Asda (3.7 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

14 charging locations within ~8 km

8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
Fastest nearby: 200 kW
Nearest: Sammy Mellon & Sons-Hyundai (3.3 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)

Jobs

42 jobs advertised · £37,090 avg

e.g. Shift Manager, Knowledge Paralegal - Global Financial Markets, Electrical Service Engineer

Source: Adzuna

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

Groomsport Lifeboat Station · 0.2 km
Groomsport Lifeboat Station was located at the end of Harbour Road, on the quay at Groomsport, a village located at the top of the Ards Peninsula, overlooking Belfast Lough, 15 miles (24 km) north-east of Belfast, in…
Groomsport · 1.0 km
Groomsport is a village and townland near Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the south shore of Belfast Lough and on the north coast of the Ards Peninsula. Groomsport has a population of 1,220 people ac…
St Columbanus' College · 1.9 km
St. Columbanus' College is a Roman Catholic secondary school situated on the Ballymaconnell Road, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College · 3.0 km
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College is an 11–18 co-educational, secondary school and sixth form in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school dates from 2001 when the non-selective Bangor Girls High School an…
Tonic Cinema · 3.2 km
The Tonic Cinema was built in 1936 in Bangor, Northern Ireland. At the time it was the largest Cinema in Ireland with 2,500 seats. It was demolished in 1992 following a fire. The old Compton Theatre Organ, formerly in…
Ward Park · 3.3 km
Ward Park is situated in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The 37-acre park contains 10 tennis courts, a duck pond and a selection of wildfowl housed in breeding pens.