Raffrey

16°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 7° · 32% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:43Sunset 19:57

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom

5 food businesses within 2 miles

• 5 rated 4–5 ★ (5 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)

1 charging location within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: The Square Car Park (5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party

Strangford

Source: UK Parliament

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)

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 Strangford:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership261 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s259 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings174 local signatures · 11,744 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office172 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test153 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

• 
  A7 road (Northern Ireland) · 4.1 km

  In Northern Ireland, the A7 is a major trunk road running 15.0 miles (24.1 km) from Downpatrick, through Crossgar and Saintfield, to Carryduff. Here the A7 joins the A24 at an at-grade roundabout, and continues to Bel…

• Ardigon · 4.6 km

  Ardigon is a rural townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It has an area of 484.5 acres (1.961 km2). It is situated in the civil parish of Killyleagh and the historic barony of Dufferin, located 2 miles west of Ki…

• Carrickmannon · 4.9 km

  Carrickmannon is a rural townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It has an area of 1436.5 acres (5.81 km2). It is situated in the civil parish of Killinchy and the historic barony of Castlereagh Upper, located just…

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  Crossgar · 5.0 km

  Crossgar is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is about 15 miles (24 km) south of Belfast, between Saintfield and Downpatrick. Crossgar had a population 1,997 people in the 2021 UK Census.

• Crossgar railway station · 5.2 km

  Crossgar 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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  Ballynahinch Junction railway station · 5.4 km

  Ballynahinch Junction railway station was on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Newcastle in Northern Ireland. The railway split off from the main line here onto the Ballynahinch Branch.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)