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Mid Ulster: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Mid Ulster District Council: NI district (ni district), Northern Ireland. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code N09000009.

Council website

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

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Environment

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Education

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Mid Ulster in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population
152,718 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age
38 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head
£22,124 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay
£582 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs
20.0% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count
2.4% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price
£195,453 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Female healthy life expectancy
65.9 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy
65.4 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions
14.8 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband
94.4% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers
52.4 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses
6,825 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

40 seats in 2026. Run by: NULL, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Sinn Féin 19, Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. 11, SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party) 5, Independent / Other 3, Ulster Unionist Party 2.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 40 councillors, by ward
  • Brian McGuigan (Sinn Féin) — Carntogher
  • Cora Corry (Sinn Féin) — Carntogher
  • Kyle Black (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Carntogher
  • Paddy Kelly (Sinn Féin) — Carntogher
  • Séan McPeake (Sinn Féin) — Carntogher
  • Eugene McConnell (Sinn Féin) — Clogher Valley
  • Frances Burton (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Clogher Valley
  • Gael Gildernew (Sinn Féin) — Clogher Valley
  • Kevin McElvogue (Independent / Other) — Clogher Valley
  • Mark Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Clogher Valley
  • Meta Graham (Ulster Unionist Party) — Clogher Valley
  • Donna Mullin (Sinn Féin) — Cookstown
  • Eva Cahoon (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Cookstown
  • Gavin Bell (Sinn Féin) — Cookstown
  • John McNamee (Sinn Féin) — Cookstown
  • Kerri Martin (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Cookstown
  • Trevor Wilson (Ulster Unionist Party) — Cookstown
  • Wilbert Buchanan (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Cookstown
  • Barry Monteith (Independent / Other) — Dungannon
  • Clement Cuthbertson (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Dungannon
  • Deirdre Varsani (Sinn Féin) — Dungannon
  • Dominic Molloy (Sinn Féin) — Dungannon
  • James Burton (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Dungannon
  • Karol McQuade (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Dungannon
  • Christine McFlynn (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Magherafelt
  • Darren Totten (Sinn Féin) — Magherafelt
  • Paul McLean (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Magherafelt
  • Sean Clarke (Sinn Féin) — Magherafelt
  • Wesley Brown (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Magherafelt
  • Anne Forde (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Moyola
  • Denise Johnston (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Moyola
  • Donal McPeake (Sinn Féin) — Moyola
  • Ian Milne (Sinn Féin) — Moyola
  • Jolene Groogan (Sinn Féin) — Moyola
  • Dan Kerr (Independent / Other) — Torrent
  • Eimear Carney (Sinn Féin) — Torrent
  • Jonathan Buchanan (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Torrent
  • Malachy Quinn (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Torrent
  • Niall McAleer (Sinn Féin) — Torrent
  • Nuala McLernon (Sinn Féin) — Torrent

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.