Town comparison · Allenwood vs Kildare

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Allenwood or Kildare?

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.

Allenwood, Co. Kildare · W91 · 1,037 people | Kildare, Co. Kildare · R51 · 9,057 people

Kildare is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Allenwood’s 1, with 2 level.

Allenwood leads on
affordability
Kildare leads on
education levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportaccess to its nearest city
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Allenwood aheadlevel or not comparableKildare ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
AllenwoodKildare
iAllenwood sits in W91, Kildare in R51. 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.

Allenwood
Kildare

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.

1,037
Population
9,057

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€380k
Median sale pricelower is better
€400k
Allenwood leads
€300k – €435k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€326k – €480k
37
Sales (24m)
2,383
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
+3.0%
13.5%
New-build share
18.0%

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.

1 prim · 0 sec
Schools
3 prim · 1 sec
Kildare leads
Allenwood · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Mhuire Allenwood National School Primary
268 pupils · Catholic
Kildare · 4 schools (largest first)
Kildare Town Community School Secondary
1,021 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Brigid's Kildare Town Primary School Primary
1,012 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Kildare Town Educate Together Ns Primary
420 pupils · Multi Denominational
Gaelscoil Mhic Aodha Primary
215 pupils · Multi Denominational
2
Creches
7
Kildare leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
5
Kildare leads
0
Hospitals
0
7
Bus stops
13
Kildare leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Kildare leads
1
Gyms & leisure
5
Kildare leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
3
Kildare leads
7
Sports pitches
15
Kildare 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.

0
Restaurants
10
Kildare leads
0
Cafés
8
Kildare leads
2
Pubs & bars
10
Kildare leads
3
Takeaways
6
Kildare leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
207
Residents per venuelower is better
266
Allenwood 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
3
Kildare leads
2
Convenience shops
4
Kildare leads
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Kildare leads
1
Banks
2
Kildare leads
1
Post offices
1
2
Hairdressers
6
Kildare leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
1
Kildare leads
1
Filling stations
3
Kildare leads
0
EV charging
5
Kildare leads
1
Library & community centre
1
115
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
323
Allenwood 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.

52m · ~85 rush
Dublinlower is better
49m · ~85 rush
Kildare leads
103m · ~115 rush
Waterfordlower is better
94m · ~110 rush
Kildare leads
119m · ~135 rush
Limericklower is better
99m · ~115 rush
Kildare leads
133m · ~155 rush
Galwaylower is better
137m · ~160 rush
Allenwood leads
158m · ~180 rush
Corklower is better
138m · ~160 rush
Kildare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-5.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-5.9
Allenwood leads
Allenwood · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-7Kilmeage NorthBelow average
-3Kilmeage NorthBelow average
Kildare · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-7KildareBelow average
-4KildareBelow average
25.7%
Third-level educated
30.0%
Kildare leads
28.8%
Professional class
29.5%
Kildare leads
10.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
13.1%
Allenwood leads
84.8%
Owner-occupier
64.1%
Allenwood leads
6.4%
Private rental
19.0%
2.8%
Social housing (LA)
12.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · W91 / R51

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (AllenwoodW91, KildareR51); safety & crime are the Kildare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

66/100
Quality of Life
57/100
Allenwood leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (W91 / R51) 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.

AllenwoodKildareOverall (avg)
Safety66635763
Affordability6676
Infrastructure6444
Family8174
Education5636
Environment7365
Economic6239
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#35
National ranklower is better
#93
Allenwood leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#5
Allenwood leads
63/100
Safety
63/100
55.1
Crime / 1,000
55.1

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.

Allenwood Below average-5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilmeage North -7 (least affluent) → Kilmeage North -3 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Kildare Below average-5.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kildare -7 (least affluent) → Kildare -4 (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 (Kildare), 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 32 CSO Small Areas.

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