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Newry, Mourne and Down: 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.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council: NI district (ni district), Northern Ireland. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code N09000010.

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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Life in Newry, Mourne and Down: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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Showing: Newry, Mourne and Down.

People living here
182,884 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age
40 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year
£21,824 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax
£575 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty
22.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
2.9% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home
£220,572 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
Years in good health: women
63.3 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men
63.2 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person
9.3 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
95.1% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
55.7 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here
7,655 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Newry, Mourne and Down from the ONS

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

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

Councillors by party: Sinn Féin 20, SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party) 8, Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. 5, Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 4, Independent / Other 3, Ulster Unionist Party 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 41 councillors, by ward
  • Declan McAteer (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Crotlieve
  • Jarlath Tinnelly (Independent / Other) — Crotlieve
  • Kate Murphy (Sinn Féin) — Crotlieve
  • Mark Gibbons (Independent / Other) — Crotlieve
  • Mickey Ruane (Sinn Féin) — Crotlieve
  • Selina Murphy (Sinn Féin) — Crotlieve
  • Aurla King (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Downpatrick
  • Cadogan Enright (Independent / Other) — Downpatrick
  • Conor Galbraith (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Downpatrick
  • Oonagh Hanlon (Sinn Féin) — Downpatrick
  • Philip Campbell (Sinn Féin) — Downpatrick
  • Aidan Mathers (Sinn Féin) — Newry
  • Cathal King (Sinn Féin) — Newry
  • Doire Finn (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Newry
  • Geraldine Kearns (Sinn Féin) — Newry
  • Killian Feehan (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Newry
  • Valerie Harte (Sinn Féin) — Newry
  • Callum Bowsie (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Rowallane
  • David Lee-Surginor (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Rowallane
  • Jonathan Jackson (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Rowallane
  • Terry Andrews (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Rowallane
  • Tierna Howie (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Rowallane
  • Alan Lewis (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Slieve Croob
  • Helena Young (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Slieve Croob
  • Jim Brennan (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Croob
  • Róisín Howell (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Croob
  • Siobhan O'Hare (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Croob
  • Aine Quinn (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Gullion
  • David Taylor (Ulster Unionist Party) — Slieve Gullion
  • Declan Murphy (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Gullion
  • Martin Hearty (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Gullion
  • Mickey Larkin (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Gullion
  • Oonagh Magennis (Sinn Féin) — Slieve Gullion
  • Pete Byrne (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Slieve Gullion
  • Glyn Hanna (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — The Mournes
  • Henry Reilly (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — The Mournes
  • Jill Truesdale (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — The Mournes
  • Laura Devlin (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — The Mournes
  • Leeanne McEvoy (Sinn Féin) — The Mournes
  • Michael Rice (Sinn Féin) — The Mournes
  • Willie Clarke (Sinn Féin) — The Mournes

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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