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Hilltown

Hilltown is a town or village in Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland. There are 1 school, 1 supermarket, 3 parks and greens, and 3 restaurants and cafés, with 2 bus stops. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Hilltown 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

5°CMist

  • Today: 12° / 5° · 91% rain
  • Tomorrow: 8° / 5° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 08:10Sunset 18:07

9h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

Food hygiene

22 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 20 rated 4–5 ★ (19 top)
  • 1 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 2026-07

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

EV charging

1 charging location within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 22 kW
  • Nearest: Rathfriland Health Centre (4.4 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

10,830 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

2 jobs advertised · £45,001 avg

e.g. Teacher, Support for Learning - DEE06753, Teacher of Mathematics - DEE06754

Source: Adzuna

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:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Clonduff GAC · 0.1 km

    Clonduff GAC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club, based in Hilltown County Down, Northern Ireland. It represents the 2 areas that make up the Clonduff parish, namely Hilltown and Cabra.

  • Corbet · 0.9 km

    Corbet is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland, 5 km east of Banbridge. It is situated in the civil parish of Magherally and the historic barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half. It lies within the…

  • Hilltown, County Down · 1.0 km

    Hilltown is a small village within the townland of Carcullion in County Down, Northern Ireland. Hilltown is the main village of the parish of Clonduff which contains the village and the rural areas around it at one en…

  • Goward Dolmen · 2.9 km

    Goward Dolmen is a megalithic dolmen or cromlech situated between Hilltown and Castlewellan in County Down, Northern Ireland, two miles from Hilltown. It is in a farmer's field in the townland of Goward, in the parish…

  • Drumlough, Rathfriland · 3.6 km

    Drumlough is a village/townland in County Down, Northern Ireland, southwest of Rathfriland, and is located in the civil parish of Drumgath.

  • Mourne (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) · 4.0 km

    Mourne was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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