Skerries
Skerries is a town or village in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Skerries area — all from official UK open data.
Weather
12°COvercast
- Today: 15° / 8° · 56% rain
- Tomorrow: 15° / 7° · Overcast
Source: WeatherAPI
Daylight
Sunrise 06:46Sunset 20:03
13h 18m of daylight today
Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec
Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk
Air quality
16US AQI · Good
Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)
Source: WAQI · Monaghan Town, Ireland
Food hygiene
7 food businesses within 2 miles
- 6 rated 4–5 ★ (4 top)
- 0 rated 0–2 (poor)
Source: Food Standards Agency
Buses & trains
- 0 bus stops within ~½ mile
Source: OpenStreetMap
House prices
Council control
No overall control
- SF 15
- DUP 13
- Alli 4
- UUP 5
- SDLP 1
- Oth 3
Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)
Amenities nearby
Local businesses
10,760 active business enterprises in the area
Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)
Jobs
6 jobs advertised
e.g. Online Psychology Tutoring Job in Skerries – Flexible Schedule, Online Biology Tutoring Job in Skerries – Flexible Schedule, Online Computer science Tutor - Part Time
Source: Adzuna
Local economy
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
Wellbeing
- 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
Local petitions
Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Newry and Armagh:
- Do not ban social media for under 16s291 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
- Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership156 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
- Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test131 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
- Review discharge of mental health patients112 local signatures · 14,552 nationwide
- Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth90 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06
Notable places nearby
- Middletown Centre for Autism · 2.6 km
The Middletown Centre for Autism in Middletown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, is a centre for training in education for young people with autistic spectrum disorder. The purpose of the centre is to support the prom…
- Creevekeeran Castle · 2.7 km
Creevekeeran Castle is a castle in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It stands on a rocky outcrop but only the west wall, three stories high, remains. The castle is a Scheduled Historic Monument sited in the townland…
Middletown, County Armagh · 3.0 kmMiddletown is a small village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It lies near the border with County Monaghan, between Armagh and Monaghan along the A3. It had a population of 237 people in the 2011 census.
Middletown GAA · 3.4 kmMiddletown Eoghan Rua Gaelic Athletic Club, also known as Eoghan Ruadh, is a GAA club from Middletown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The club fields teams from under-6 level to senior level in Gaelic football, hurl…
Castleshane, County Monaghan · 4.4 kmCastleshane is a small village on the outskirts of Monaghan town in the north of County Monaghan in Ireland. The village is situated on the N2, the main road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny, and is located approx…
- Madden, County Armagh · 4.7 km
Madden is a small village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area. It has a population of around 200 people.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)