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Warrenpoint

Warrenpoint is a town in Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland, with a population of around 7,670. It has around 3 schools, 1 GP surgery, 3 pharmacies, 1 supermarket, 9 parks, and 19 restaurants and cafés, with 9 bus stops. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Warrenpoint 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

10°COvercast

  • Today: 14° / 8° · 19% rain
  • Tomorrow: 15° / 10° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:45Sunset 19:58

13h 13m 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 · Newry Canal Street, United Kingdom

Food hygiene

68 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 56 rated 4–5 ★ (47 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 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

EV charging

1 charging location within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 22 kW
  • Nearest: Havelock Place, Warrenpoint (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Your MP

Chris Hazzard

Sinn Féin

South Down

Source: UK Parliament

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)

Jobs

10 jobs advertised

e.g. Online Maths Tutoring Job in Warrenpoint – Flexible Schedule, Care Assistant, Become a Music Tutor in Warrenpoint – Flexible & Remote

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 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Newry River · 0.6 km

    Newry River, also known as the River Clanrye, is a river in Northern Ireland, flowing through counties Down and Armagh. The river passes through the city of Newry and empties into Carlingford Lough near Warrenpoint.

  • Warrenpoint · 0.6 km

    Warrenpoint is a small port town and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It sits at the head of Carlingford Lough, south of Newry, and is separated from the Republic of Ireland by a narrow strait. The town…

  • Omeath · 1.3 km

    Omeath is a village on the Cooley Peninsula in the north of County Louth in Ireland, close to the border with both County Armagh and County Down in Northern Ireland. It is roughly midway between Dublin and Belfast, ve…

  • St Mark's High School, Warrenpoint · 1.3 km

    St. Mark's High School is a Roman Catholic co-education secondary school situated just outside Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland.

  • Narrow Water Forest · 1.8 km

    Narrow Water Forest is a mixed broadleaf and coniferous forest located between Newry and Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is 342.04 acres (138.42 ha) in size, of which 138.41 acres (56.01 ha) is controll…

  • Warrenpoint ambush · 1.8 km

    On 27 August 1979, the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ambushed a British Army convoy with two large roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle outside Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. The first…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Warrenpoint?
Warrenpoint is a town in Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland, in the Newry, Mourne and Down local authority.
What is the population of Warrenpoint?
Warrenpoint has an approximate settlement population of 7,670.