Town comparison · An Uaimh (Navan) vs Dunshaughlin

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An Uaimh (Navan) or Dunshaughlin?

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 Uaimh (Navan), Co. Meath · C15 · 33,109 people | Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath · A85 · 4,810 people

An Uaimh (Navan) and Dunshaughlin are closely matched. Each leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions, with 1 level.

An Uaimh (Navan) leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
Dunshaughlin leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaccess to its nearest city
241216

An Uaimh (Navan) aheadlevel or not comparableDunshaughlin ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
An Uaimh (Navan)Dunshaughlin
iAn Uaimh (Navan) sits in C15, Dunshaughlin in A85. 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 Uaimh (Navan)
Dunshaughlin

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.

33,109
Population
4,810

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€342k
Median sale pricelower is better
€419k
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
€280k – €400k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€401k – €462k
464
Sales (24m)
434
+9.2%
Price momentum (YoY)
-0.4%
8.6%
New-build share
71.9%

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.

11 prim · 5 sec
Schools
3 prim · 2 sec
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
An Uaimh (Navan) · 16 schools (largest first)
St Patrick's Classical School Secondary
938 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Beaufort College Secondary
917 pupils · 50% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Loreto Secondary School Secondary
909 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Coláiste Na Mí Secondary
873 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St. Joseph's Secondary School, Navan, Secondary
712 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
St Stephens Ns Primary
801 pupils · Catholic
St Pauls N S Primary
760 pupils · Catholic
St Oliver Plunkett Ns Primary
399 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Mercy Convent N S Primary
384 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Scoil Naomh Eoin Primary
361 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Ard Rí Community National School Primary
361 pupils · Multi Denominational
Aine Naofa N S Primary
304 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Navan Educate Together Ns Primary
224 pupils · Multi DenominationalDEIS
S N Mhuire Primary
187 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Gaelscoil Eanna Primary
137 pupils · Catholic
Flowerfield N S Primary
59 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Dunshaughlin · 5 schools (largest first)
Community College Dunshaughlin Secondary
1,135 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Coláiste Rioga Secondary
193 pupils · 60% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
S N Seachnaill Naofa Primary
623 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Na Rithe Primary
218 pupils · Catholic
Dunshaughlin Community National School Primary
116 pupils · Multi Denominational
35
Creches
8
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
1
GP practices
N/A
8
Pharmacies
3
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
3
Hospitals
0
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
99
Bus stops
11
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
21
Gyms & leisure
9
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
10
Parks & playgrounds
9
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
55
Sports pitches
27
An Uaimh (Navan) 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.

18
Restaurants
3
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
9
Cafés
6
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
20
Pubs & bars
5
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
23
Takeaways
8
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
1
Nightclubs
1
1
Cinema & theatre
0
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
460
Residents per venuelower is better
209
Dunshaughlin leads

An Uaimh (Navan) is a large town and Dunshaughlin is a small town, so their national rankings aren’t like-for-like — each is ranked only against places of its own size. Compare them on the residents-per-venue row instead.

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

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

8
Supermarkets
3
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
21
Convenience shops
5
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
7
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
3
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
6
Banks
2
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
2
Post offices
1
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
9
Hairdressers
8
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
0
Dentists
3
Dunshaughlin leads
2
Vets
1
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
8
Filling stations
3
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
4
EV charging
1
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
5
Library & community centre
3
An Uaimh (Navan) leads
460
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
146
Dunshaughlin 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.

47m · ~80 rush
Dublinlower is better
33m · ~65 rush
Dunshaughlin leads
143m · ~155 rush
Waterfordlower is better
129m · ~145 rush
Dunshaughlin leads
146m · ~170 rush
Galwaylower is better
142m · ~165 rush
Dunshaughlin leads
165m · ~185 rush
Limericklower is better
151m · ~170 rush
Dunshaughlin leads
204m · ~225 rush
Corklower is better
190m · ~210 rush
Dunshaughlin leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-3.3
Affluence (Pobal HP)
4.2
Dunshaughlin leads
An Uaimh (Navan) · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-8Navan UrbanBelow average
-2Navan RuralBelow average
Dunshaughlin · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+2DunshaughlinAbove average
+6DunshaughlinAffluent
36.5%
Third-level educated
47.9%
Dunshaughlin leads
35.2%
Professional class
49.7%
Dunshaughlin leads
10.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.2%
Dunshaughlin leads
65.9%
Owner-occupier
82.1%
Dunshaughlin leads
20.1%
Private rental
12.5%
10.8%
Social housing (LA)
4.6%

Liveability & safety

AREA · C15 / A85

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (An Uaimh (Navan)C15, DunshaughlinA85); safety & crime are the Meath Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
72/100
Dunshaughlin leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (C15 / A85) 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 Uaimh (Navan)DunshaughlinOverall (avg)
Safety57477247
Affordability8056
Infrastructure2989
Family7986
Education5066
Environment6682
Economic4876
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#93
National ranklower is better
#4
Dunshaughlin leads
#3
County ranklower is better
#1
Dunshaughlin leads
47/100
Safety
47/100
76
Crime / 1,000
76

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 Uaimh (Navan) Below average-3.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Navan Urban -8 (least affluent) → Navan Rural -2 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Dunshaughlin Affluent+4.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dunshaughlin +2 (least affluent) → Dunshaughlin +6 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above 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 (Meath), 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 116 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in An Uaimh (Navan)

The towns are level, so these are from the first.

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