Dromara

Dromara is a town or village in Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland. There are 1 school, 1 GP & clinic, 1 supermarket, 50 parks & greens, and 4 restaurants & cafés, along with 4 bus stops. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Dromara area — all from official UK open data.

Council: Newry, Mourne and Down
County: Newry, Mourne and Down

Northern Ireland isn’t covered by some Great Britain data sources, so street crime, energy ratings, NHS services, schools, council tax, care ratings, rents, affordability, life expectancy and neighbourhood deprivation aren’t shown here. House prices, weather, air quality, food hygiene, fuel, your MP, council control, petitions and notable places do apply.

Weather

12°COvercast

Today: 15° / 8° · 36% rain
Tomorrow: 15° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:42Sunset 20:00

13h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Lisburn Dunmurry Seymour Hill, United Kingdom

Food hygiene

17 food businesses within 2 miles

16 rated 4–5 ★ (14 top)
0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Buses & trains

0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

House prices

£220,572 average▲ 12.8% YoY

Across Newry, Mourne and Down · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

EV charging

1 charging location within ~8 km

1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
Fastest nearby: 150 kW
Nearest: HRL Dromara (1.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Council control

No overall control

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

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

Amenities nearby

Amenity data is being compiled for this area.

Local businesses

10,705 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

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

Wellbeing

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

Local petitions

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

Notable places nearby

Dromara · 1.5 km
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Legananny · 2.8 km
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West Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) · 3.0 km
West Down was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
Kinallen · 3.9 km
Kinallen is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is four miles from Dromore and two miles from Dromara.
Slieve Croob · 4.1 km
Slieve Croob is a mountain with a height of 534 metres (1,752 ft) in the middle of County Down, Northern Ireland. It is the heart of a mountainous area, the Dromara Hills, north of the Mourne Mountains. It is designat…
Legananny Dolmen · 4.9 km
The Legananny Dolmen is a megalithic dolmen or cromlech nine miles southeast of Banbridge and three miles north of Castlewellan, both in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the slopes of Slieve Croob near the vill…