Town comparison · An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga vs Lifford

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An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga or Lifford?

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.

An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga, Co. Donegal · F92 · 1,543 people | Lifford, Co. Donegal · F93 · 1,613 people

An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Lifford’s 0, with 3 level.

An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transport
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An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga aheadlevel or not comparableLifford ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
An Bun Beag-Doirí BeagaLifford
iAn Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga sits in F92, Lifford in F93. 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.

An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga
Lifford

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.

1,543
Population
1,613

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€187k
Median sale pricelower is better
€160k
Lifford leads
€177k – €204k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€112k – €240k
4
Sales (24m)
137
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
0.0%

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.

3 prim · 1 sec
Schools
2 prim · 0 sec
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga · 4 schools (largest first)
Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair Secondary
439 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEISGaelscoil
S N Adhamhnain Primary
135 pupils · CatholicDEISGaelscoil
Sn Chonaill Primary
110 pupils · CatholicDEISGaelscoil
Scoil Mhuire B&c Primary
91 pupils · CatholicDEISGaelscoil
Lifford · 2 schools (largest first)
St Patricks N S Primary
160 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Scoil Náisiúnta Muire Gan Smál Primary
120 pupils · CatholicDEIS
3
Creches
3
1
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
1
0
Hospitals
1
Lifford leads
9
Bus stops
4
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
1
Gyms & leisure
1
3
Parks & playgrounds
0
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
12
Sports pitches
5
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga 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.

4
Restaurants
1
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
2
Cafés
1
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
5
Pubs & bars
0
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
2
Takeaways
0
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
0
Nightclubs
0
1
Cinema & theatre
1
110
Residents per venuelower is better
538
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga 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.

1
Supermarkets
0
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
1
Convenience shops
5
Lifford leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
0
1
Hairdressers
0
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
0
Dentists
0
1
Vets
0
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
3
Filling stations
3
0
EV charging
1
Lifford leads
0
Library & community centre
1
Lifford leads
220
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
161
Lifford 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.

239m · ~275 rush
Dublinlower is better
174m · ~210 rush
Lifford leads
244m · ~270 rush
Galwaylower is better
217m · ~240 rush
Lifford leads
290m · ~310 rush
Limericklower is better
263m · ~280 rush
Lifford leads
345m · ~360 rush
Waterfordlower is better
279m · ~295 rush
Lifford leads
370m · ~390 rush
Corklower is better
329m · ~350 rush
Lifford leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-11
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-18.2
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-14MagheraclogherDisadvantaged
-8MagheraclogherDisadvantaged
Lifford · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-19Clonleigh SouthVery disadvantaged
-17Clonleigh SouthVery disadvantaged
30.6%
Third-level educated
20.2%
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
29.1%
Professional class
21.8%
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
18.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
25.4%
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
77.6%
Owner-occupier
63.7%
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
10.5%
Private rental
17.7%
7.7%
Social housing (LA)
14.3%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F92 / F93

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (An Bun Beag-Doirí BeagaF92, LiffordF93); safety & crime are the Donegal Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

59/100
Quality of Life
54/100
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (F92 / F93) 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.

An Bun Beag-Doirí BeagaLiffordOverall (avg)
Safety59715471
Affordability100100
Infrastructure2722
Family7580
Education3117
Environment7769
Economic2919
020406080100020406080100
#85
National ranklower is better
#101
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#3
An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga leads
71/100
Safety
71/100
44.8
Crime / 1,000
44.8

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.

An Bun Beag-Doirí Beaga Disadvantaged-11.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Magheraclogher -14 (least affluent) → Magheraclogher -8 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Lifford Very disadvantaged-18.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Clonleigh South -19 (least affluent) → Clonleigh South -17 (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 (Donegal), 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 14 CSO Small Areas.

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