Balmoral

16°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 7° · 31% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:44Sunset 19:58

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Belfast Stockman's Lane, United Kingdom

301 food businesses within 2 miles

• 238 rated 4–5 ★ (194 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£184,768 average▲ 7.7% YoY

Across Belfast · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

81 charging locations within ~8 km

• 26 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Crown Plaza Hotel (1.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

No overall control

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

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

15,465 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

17 jobs advertised · £75,000 avg

e.g. Become a Biology Tutor in Balmoral – Flexible & Remote, Cleaner - Balmoral Primary School - SBO10337, Online History Tutoring Job in Balmoral – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

3.8% 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

• 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Belfast South and Mid Down:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership327 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s284 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Fund NHS access to Omaveloxolone for patients with Friedreich's Ataxia181 local signatures · 7,373 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test126 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership99 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

• 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships · 0.0 km

  The 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on 27 and 28 March 1999. The races were held at the Barnett Demesne/Queen's University Playing Fields in Belfast, United Kingdom. Reports of the event were gi…

• Upper Malone · 0.5 km

  Upper Malone, also known as the Dub, is a multi-sport facility owned by Queen's University Belfast. There are fourteen outdoor pitches together with the Arena Pitch, which is the home ground of the university's footba…

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  Taughmonagh · 0.9 km

  Taughmonagh is a small housing estate in south Belfast, Northern Ireland, within the civil parishes of Drumbeg and Shankill, and barony of Belfast Upper. Taughmonagh has become known for being a staunchly loyalist est…

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  Shaw's Bridge · 0.9 km

  Shaw's Bridge is the name given to two adjacent bridges across the River Lagan in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The older of the bridges is a historic stone arched bridge, which is open to cyclists and pedestrians. The n…

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  Edenderry, County Down · 1.0 km

  Edenderry is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the bank of the River Lagan near the southern edge of Belfast. In the 2021 census it had a population of 374. Its main source of e…

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  Ballynahatty, County Down · 1.1 km

  Ballynahatty is a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the southern edge of Belfast. It contains the Giants Ring, a henge monument.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)