Kearney

12°CClear

• Today: 16° / 11° · 19% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:42Sunset 19:55

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom

2 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Castle Street (5.7 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)

2.4% 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

• East Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) · 1.9 km

  East Down was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

• 
  Quintin Castle · 2.2 km

  Quintin Castle is a castle situated in County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Portaferry.

• Ballytrustan (civil parish) · 2.5 km

  Ballytrustan is a civil parish and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Ards Upper.

• Ardgeehan · 2.9 km

  Ardgeehan is a rural townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It has an area of 75.8 acres (0.307 km2). It is situated in the civil parish of Ballyphilip and the historic barony of Ards Upper, located 1.5 miles east…

• White House, County Down · 3.2 km

  The White House is a ruined 17th century dwelling house at Ballyspurge, near Cloghy, County Down, Northern Ireland on the Ards Peninsula. It is situated about one mile (1.2 km) south-east of Cloghy, overlooking Slane…

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  Cloghy · 3.2 km

  Cloghy, also spelt Cloughy or Cloughey, is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the east coast of the Ards Peninsula, in the Ards and North Down Borough. It had a population of 1,360 people in…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)