Magherafelt

12°COvercast

• Today: 16° / 10° · 43% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:44Sunset 20:03

13h 19m 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

125 food businesses within 2 miles

• 108 rated 4–5 ★ (97 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£195,453 average▲ 10.5% YoY

Across Mid Ulster · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Meadow Lane Shopping Centre (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Mr Cathal Mallaghan

Sinn Féin

Mid Ulster

Source: UK Parliament

No overall control

• SF 19
• DUP 11
• UUP 2
• SDLP 5
• Oth 3

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

10,845 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

148 jobs advertised · £40,134 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time, Online Maths Tutoring Job in Bellaghy – Flexible Schedule, House Cleaning Jobs

Source: Adzuna

2.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,124 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction8.0
• Feeling worthwhile8.3
• Happiness yesterday8.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)1.9

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Mid Ulster:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s260 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Urgently review & adjust steel import quota & tariff changes - effective 01/07187 local signatures · 10,229 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership142 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test107 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth68 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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  Magherafelt District Council · 0.4 km

  Magherafelt District Council was a district council in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It was merged with Cookstown District Council and Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council on 1 April 2015 under local g…

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  Magherafelt · 0.5 km

  Magherafelt is a town and civil parish in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 9,071 at the 2021 census. It is the biggest town in the south of the county and is the social, economic and politi…

• Ardtrea North · 0.5 km

  Ardtrea North is the official name of Newbridge parish, the first parish (geographically) in the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland diocese of Armagh. The Parish also incorporates the breakaway community of Ballymag…

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  Rainey Endowed School · 0.5 km

  Rainey Endowed School, known colloquially as "The Rainey", is a voluntary grammar school in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The school was founded in 1713 and has an enrolment of around 700 pupils.…

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  St Mary's Grammar School · 0.5 km

  St. Mary's Grammar School is a grammar school in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

• St Pius X College, Magherafelt · 0.7 km

  Saint Pius X College is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)