Warrenpoint

6°CModerate rain

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

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 08:10Sunset 18:07

9h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland

68 food businesses within 2 miles

• 56 rated 4–5 ★ (46 top)
• 1 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 2026-07

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

1 charging location within ~8 km

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

Source: Open Charge Map

Chris Hazzard

Sinn Féin

South Down

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)

10,830 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

15 jobs advertised · £45,500 avg

e.g. Postal Delivery Driver, Care Home Manager, Repairs Supervisor

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:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth103 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately89 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills66 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Review discharge of mental health patients61 local signatures · 14,649 nationwide
• Add fish-eating birds to Schedule 2.1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 198152 local signatures · 15,736 nationwide

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

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  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.

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  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…

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  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.

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  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…

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  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…

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