Ballymacarret

Ballymacarret is a town or village in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It has 9 schools, 4 GP surgeries, 12 pharmacies, 6 supermarkets, 25 parks, and 70 restaurants and cafés, with 62 bus stops and Titanic Quarter railway station 0.6 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Ballymacarret area — all from official UK open data.

Council: Belfast
County: Belfast

Northern Ireland isn’t covered by some Great Britain data sources, so street crime, energy ratings, NHS services, schools, council tax, care ratings, rents, affordability, life expectancy and neighbourhood deprivation aren’t shown here. House prices, weather, air quality, food hygiene, fuel, your MP, council control, petitions and notable places do apply.

Weather

13°CLight rain

Today: 13° / 3° · 90% rain
Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 08:10Sunset 18:05

9h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

418 rated 4–5 ★ (328 top)
6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Buses & trains

0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

House prices

£184,768 average▲ 7.7% YoY

Across Belfast · to 2026-07

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

EV charging

105 charging locations within ~8 km

33 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
Fastest nearby: 350 kW
Nearest: Avoniel Leisure Centre (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Your MP

Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist Party

Belfast East

Recent votes:

NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

No overall control

SF 22
DUP 14
Alli 10
UUP 2
SDLP 4
Oth 8

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

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

15,745 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

3.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,429 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Wellbeing

Life satisfaction7.2
Feeling worthwhile7.4
Happiness yesterday7.1
Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Belfast East:

Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth141 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately108 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
Make statutory maternity pay 90% of wage for first 12 weeks & minimum wage after97 local signatures · 58,157 nationwide
Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills95 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK71 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

Lagan Canal · 0.2 km
The Lagan Canal was a 44-kilometre (27 mi) canal built to connect Belfast to Lough Neagh. The first section, which is a river navigation, was opened in 1763, and linked Belfast to Lisburn. The second section from Lisb…
Comber Greenway · 0.4 km
The Comber Greenway is a 7-mile (11 km) traffic-free section of the National Cycle Network that runs along the old Belfast-Comber railway line. The cycle path starts on Dee Street in east Belfast and finishes at Combe…
Cluan Place · 0.4 km
Cluan Place is a Protestant working-class area in eastern inner-city Belfast, in Northern Ireland.
Battle of St Matthew's · 0.4 km
The Battle of St Matthew's or Battle of Short Strand was a gun battle that took place on the night of 27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was fought between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), an…
1871 Ballymacarrett rail crash · 0.5 km
The Ballymacarrett rail crash of 1871 occurred on 13 May 1871 at the Ballymacarrett Junction of the Belfast and County Down Railway in Belfast, Ireland, which at the time was in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and…
Pottinger (District Electoral Area) · 0.5 km
Pottinger was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1985 to 2014. Located in the east of the city, the district elected six members to Belfast City Council and contained the…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)