Newtownards

15°CSunny

• Today: 15° / 10° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 10° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:41Sunset 19:59

13h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom

228 food businesses within 2 miles

• 180 rated 4–5 ★ (149 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

• Cheapest petrol: 152.7p · Asda (1.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 172.7p · Asda (7.7 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

27 charging locations within ~8 km

• 12 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 200 kW
• Nearest: bp Rosevale (0.4 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)

148 jobs advertised · £37,353 avg

e.g. Finance Officer, Become a Italian Tutor in Comber – Flexible & Remote, Finance officer

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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  Newtownards Priory · 0.2 km

  Newtownards Priory was a medieval Dominican priory founded by the Savage family around 1244 in the village of Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. Only the lower parts of the nave and two blocked doors in the s…

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  Market House, Newtownards · 0.4 km

  Market House is a municipal building in Conway Square, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a Grade B+ listed building.

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  Newtownards · 0.7 km

  Newtownards referred to simply as Ards, is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough, 10 miles (16 km) east of Belfast, on the Ards Peninsula. It is in the civil par…

• Newtownards (Parliament of Ireland constituency) · 0.8 km

  Newtownards was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

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  Regent House School · 0.9 km

  Regent House School is a co-educational, controlled grammar school in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school comprises two parts: the grammar school and the preparatory department. Its current enrollme…

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  Ards Community Hospital · 1.0 km

  The Ards Community Hospital is a health facility in Church Street, Newtownards, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)