Acton

15°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 8° · 47% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:44Sunset 20:01

13h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Newry Canal Street, United Kingdom

11 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

6 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 400 kW
• Nearest: Market Street (6.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

No overall control

• SF 15
• DUP 13
• Alli 4
• UUP 5
• SDLP 1
• Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

10,760 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

69 jobs advertised · £41,521 avg

e.g. Online Primary school Tutoring Job in Acton (Dorset) – Flexible Schedule, Online Chemistry Tutoring Job in Acton (Cheshire East) – Flexible Schedule, Online Primary school Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,033 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Down:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s266 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership188 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test113 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Reduce Vehicle Excise Duty by 50% for vehicles aged 20 to 39 years112 local signatures · 54,314 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth103 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

• 
  Poyntzpass railway station · 0.9 km

  Poyntzpass railway station serves the village of Poyntzpass in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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  Acton, County Armagh · 1.2 km

  Acton is a small village and townland of 22 acres in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, about a half mile north of Poyntzpass. It is situated in the civil parish of Ballymore and the historic barony of Orior Lower and w…

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  Poyntzpass · 1.5 km

  Poyntzpass is a small village on the border between southern County Armagh and County Down in Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Ballymore and the historic barony of Orior Lower within the Armagh…

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  Scarva · 3.5 km

  Scarva is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is at the boundary with County Armagh, which is marked by the Newry Canal. In the 2001 census it had a population of 320.

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  Scarva railway station · 3.6 km

  Scarva railway station serves the small village of Scarva in County Down, Northern Ireland. Despite serving the County Down village, the station itself is in County Armagh, the nearby Newry Canal being the boundary.

• Ballysheil, County Armagh · 3.6 km

  Ballysheil was an Electoral Division of Tanderagee Rural District in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, with an area of 4,258 acres. It existed from 1923 until 1 October 1973, when the Local Government Act 1972 replaced…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)