Loughbrickland

11°COvercast

• Today: 16° / 8° · 56% rain
• Tomorrow: 14° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

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

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

26 food businesses within 2 miles

• 21 rated 4–5 ★ (16 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

10 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 400 kW
• Nearest: Banbridge The Boulevard (2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Chris Hazzard

Sinn Féin

South Down

Source: UK Parliament

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)

8 jobs advertised · £32,367 avg

e.g. Cleaning Operative, Retail Sales Associate, General Manager

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

• 
  Loughbrickland · 0.3 km

  Loughbrickland is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland, south of Banbridge on the A1 Belfast–Dublin road. In the 2011 census it had a population of 693. Loughbrickland is within the Banbridge District.

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  New-Bridge Integrated College · 0.7 km

  New-Bridge Integrated College is an integrated secondary school founded in 1995 for children in Newry and Banbridge, hence the name New(ry)-(Ban)Bridge. New-Bridge was established in the rural village of Loughbricklan…

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  Loughbrickland Crannóg · 1.1 km

  Loughbrickland Crannóg is a Bronze Age human-made island known as a crannóg, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the middle of the lough, 1 mile (1.6 km) from the…

• Bridgewater, Banbridge · 2.2 km

  Bridgewater is a major retail and business development in County Down, Northern Ireland, near Banbridge. It consists of a shopping outlet, retail park, drive-thru units and petrol stations.

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  Lisnagade · 2.7 km

  Lisnagade is a large multivallate earthen ringfort, three miles west of Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, just off the Scarva road. Lisnagade Fort rath and annex are State Care Historic Monumen…

• Banbridge High School · 3.5 km

  Banbridge High School is a controlled secondary school located in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the Southern Education and Library Board area.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)