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10°CLight rain shower

• Today: 14° / 9° · 64% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:44Sunset 20:00

13h 15m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Ballymena Ballykeel, United Kingdom

13 food businesses within 2 miles

• 11 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£177,450 average▲ 8.2% YoY

Across Mid and East Antrim · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 180 kW
• Nearest: McGuckian Milling Co (3.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

No overall control

• SF 4
• DUP 12
• Alli 7
• UUP 8
• Oth 9

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

6,115 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,320 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.2
• Happiness yesterday7.9
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Antrim:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s314 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership232 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office202 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings126 local signatures · 11,744 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills121 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide

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

• 
  Cloughmills · 0.2 km

  Cloughmills or Cloghmills is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Ballymoney is 9 miles to the north-west and Ballymena is 10 miles to the south. It had a population of 1,309 people in the 2011 census. It is…

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  Clogh, County Antrim · 3.7 km

  Clogh, also spelt as Clough, is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 9 miles from Ballymena. It is situated within the Glenravel ward of the Braid electoral area of Mid and East Antrim District Council.…

• Springmount Bog Tablets · 3.8 km

  The Springmount Bog Tablets are a set of six wooden wax tablets dating to the late 7th or early 8th century that were discovered in 1914 in the Springmount bog near Ballyhutherland, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Th…

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  Newtown Crommelin · 4.6 km

  Newtowncrommelin is a small village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies 8 miles north-northeast of Ballymena and is in the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council area. The village of Newtowncromm…

• Martinstown, County Antrim · 5.5 km

  Martinstown is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Located 6 miles from Ballymena, it is situated in Glenravel, locally known as "The Tenth Glen", alongside the widely known nine Glens of Antrim.

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  Knockanally railway station · 5.5 km

  Knockanally railway station, later known as Martinstown railway station was on the Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway which ran from Ballymena to Retreat in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)