Town comparison · Adare vs Kilmallock

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Adare or Kilmallock?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Adare, Co. Limerick · V94 · 1,047 people | Kilmallock, Co. Limerick · V35 · 1,761 people

Adare is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Kilmallock’s 1, with 3 level.

Adare leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaccess to its nearest city
Kilmallock leads on
affordability
221713

Adare aheadlevel or not comparableKilmallock ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
AdareKilmallock
iAdare sits in V94, Kilmallock in V35. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Adare
Kilmallock

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

1,047
Population
1,761

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€520k
Median sale pricelower is better
€210k
Kilmallock leads
€365k – €615k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€129k – €282k
65
Sales (24m)
112
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
23.1%
New-build share
5.4%

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

3 prim · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 1 sec
Adare leads
Adare · 3 schools (largest first)
Scoil Naomh Iosaf Primary
144 pupils · Catholic
Our Ladys Abbey Primary
134 pupils · Catholic
St. Nicholas Church Of Ireland School Primary
52 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Kilmallock · 2 schools (largest first)
Coláiste Iósaef Secondary
508 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Mocheallóg Primary
280 pupils · CatholicDEIS
4
Creches
3
Adare leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
2
Pharmacies
2
0
Hospitals
0
4
Bus stops
2
Adare leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
4
Gyms & leisure
2
Adare leads
2
Parks & playgrounds
1
Adare leads
11
Sports pitches
14
Kilmallock leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

8
Restaurants
2
Adare leads
1
Cafés
2
Kilmallock leads
8
Pubs & bars
6
Adare leads
0
Takeaways
2
Kilmallock leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Kilmallock leads
62
Residents per venuelower is better
135
Adare leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

0
Supermarkets
1
Kilmallock leads
3
Convenience shops
3
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Kilmallock leads
1
Banks
4
Kilmallock leads
1
Post offices
1
0
Hairdressers
5
Kilmallock leads
0
Dentists
0
1
Vets
0
Adare leads
2
Filling stations
4
Kilmallock leads
2
EV charging
0
Adare leads
2
Library & community centre
1
Adare leads
87
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
84
Kilmallock leads

Commute by car

TOWN · from centre

Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.

18m · ~30 rush
Limericklower is better
38m · ~55 rush
Adare leads
82m · ~105 rush
Corklower is better
65m · ~85 rush
Kilmallock leads
88m · ~110 rush
Galwaylower is better
108m · ~130 rush
Adare leads
128m · ~140 rush
Waterfordlower is better
113m · ~125 rush
Kilmallock leads
148m · ~185 rush
Dublinlower is better
167m · ~200 rush
Adare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
4.2
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-7.4
Adare leads
Adare · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+3Adare SouthAbove average
+6Adare SouthAffluent
Kilmallock · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-9KilmallockDisadvantaged
-6KilmallockBelow average
48.2%
Third-level educated
26.6%
Adare leads
47.7%
Professional class
31.5%
Adare leads
6.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
11.6%
Adare leads
72.3%
Owner-occupier
65.4%
Adare leads
19.8%
Private rental
12.2%
4.3%
Social housing (LA)
9.5%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V94 / V35

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (AdareV94, KilmallockV35); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

62/100
Quality of Life
57/100
Adare leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V94 / V35) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town’s overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

AdareKilmallockOverall (avg)
Safety62425742
Affordability89100
Infrastructure8326
Family7285
Education4632
Environment6265
Economic4050
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#66
National ranklower is better
#93
Adare leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#3
Adare leads
42/100
Safety
42/100
88.4
Crime / 1,000
88.4

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index, published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town’s poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Adare Affluent+4.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Adare South +3 (least affluent) → Adare South +6 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Kilmallock Below average-7.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilmallock -9 (least affluent) → Kilmallock -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town’s Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety and crime are the Garda division (Limerick), coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 10 CSO Small Areas.

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