Ballykinler

11°COvercast

• Today: 16° / 8° · 19% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 10° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:43Sunset 19:57

13h 13m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Lisburn Dunmurry Seymour Hill, United Kingdom

16 food businesses within 2 miles

• 15 rated 4–5 ★ (13 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£220,572 average▲ 12.8% YoY

Across Newry, Mourne and Down · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

9 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 100 kW
• Nearest: French's Cafe & Bistro (5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

No overall control

• SF 20
• DUP 5
• Alli 4
• UUP 1
• SDLP 8
• Oth 3

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

10,705 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised

e.g. Babysitter wanted in Ballykinler - babysitting Ballykinler

Source: Adzuna

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,824 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Down:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s266 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership188 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test113 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Reduce Vehicle Excise Duty by 50% for vehicles aged 20 to 39 years112 local signatures · 54,314 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth103 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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  Ballykinler · 0.0 km

  Ballykinler, often transcribed as Ballykinlar, is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies 12 kilometres south west of Downpatrick, in the parish of Tyrella and Dundrum. In the 2001 census…

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  Abercorn Barracks · 0.8 km

  Abercorn Barracks, sometimes referred to as Ballykinlar Barracks or Ballykinler Barracks, is a former military base in Ballykinler in County Down, Northern Ireland. The surrounding training area is retained by the Min…

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  Tyrella · 1.5 km

  Tyrella is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Lecale Upper.

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  Tyrella Lifeboat Station · 2.2 km

  Tyrella Lifeboat Station was located near the beach, in the parish of Tyrella, close to the village of Ballykinler, overlooking Dundrum Bay, on the coast of County Down in Northern Ireland.

• Dundrum railway station · 3.0 km

  Dundrum railway station was on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Newcastle, County Down in Northern Ireland.

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  Dundrum Bay · 3.1 km

  Dundrum Bay is a bay on the Irish Sea coast of County Down, Northern Ireland. The larger Outer Bay stretches from the Mourne Mountains at Newcastle to Saint John's Point. The smaller Inner Bay was historically called…

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