The Six Towns
The Six Towns is a town or village in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland. It has 1 school. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the The Six Towns area — all from official UK open data.
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- County
- Mid Ulster
Weather
9°CPatchy rain nearby
- Today: 12° / 7° · 41% rain
- Tomorrow: 13° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby
Source: WeatherAPI
Daylight
Sunrise 06:45Sunset 20:04
13h 19m of daylight today
Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec
Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk
Air quality
15US AQI · Good
Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)
Source: WAQI · Monaghan Town, Ireland
Food hygiene
1 food businesses within 2 miles
- 1 rated 4–5 ★ (1 top)
- 0 rated 0–2 (poor)
Source: Food Standards Agency
Buses & trains
- 0 bus stops within ~½ mile
Source: OpenStreetMap
House prices
£195,453 average▲ 10.5% YoY
Across Mid Ulster · to 2026-06
Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)
EV charging
1 charging location within ~8 km
- Fastest nearby: 22 kW
- Nearest: St Patricks Street (7.1 km)
Source: Open Charge Map
Council control
No overall control
- SF 19
- DUP 11
- UUP 2
- SDLP 5
- Oth 3
Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)
Amenities nearby
Local businesses
10,845 active business enterprises in the area
Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)
Local economy
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
Wellbeing
- 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
Local petitions
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
Notable places nearby
- Glenviggan · 3.9 km
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Corick · 4.9 kmCorick is a megalithic site and townland in the civil parish of Ballynascreen, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It includes a stone circle and a stone row. The Corick stone circles and alignments are located 2 km…
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Straw, County Londonderry · 5.4 kmStraw is a small village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. In the 2021 Census it had a population of 416. It is situated within Mid-Ulster District approximately one mile south-west of Draperstown.
Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency) · 5.7 kmMid Ulster is a parliamentary constituency in the UK House of Commons. The current MP is Cathal Mallaghan, of Sinn Féin, who was first elected at the 2024 election.
Beaghmore · 7.1 kmBeaghmore is a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, 8.5 miles north west of Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, on the south-east edge of the Sperrin Mountains.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)