Scarva

15°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 8° · 60% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:44Sunset 20:02

13h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

7 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

• Cheapest petrol: 155.7p · Asda (11.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 177.7p · Asda (11.3 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

12 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 400 kW
• Nearest: Market Street (3.7 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)

4 jobs advertised · £22,578 avg

e.g. Team Member - KFC Newtonabbey - Church Road, Cook - KFC Newtonabbey - Church Road, Team Leader - KFC Newtonabbey - Church Road

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

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  Scarva railway station · 0.1 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.

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  Scarva · 0.2 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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  Lisnagade · 2.3 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…

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  Acton, County Armagh · 2.8 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…

• White's Mill (Tandragee) · 3.2 km

  White's Mill is a corn mill, owned by White's Speedicook, along the banks of the Cusher River in Tandragee, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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  Tanderagee railway station · 3.6 km

  Tanderagee railway station was opened on 6 January 1852. It was originally named Madden Bridge Railway Station and was located on the Madden Road between the villages of Tandragee, County Armagh and Gilford, County…

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