Béal An MhuirtheadCo. Mayo vs BallinaCo. MayoTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area F26 — on the routing-key area page they would read as one number. At town level they diverge. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
Béal An Mhuirthead
Ballina

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

TOWNS
Béal An Mhuirthead
Co. MAYO · in F26 · pop · 3 small areas
Ballina
Co. MAYO · in F26 · pop · 45 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€330k
€184k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€240k – €330k
€98k – €313k
Sales (24m)
9
40
Price momentum (YoY)
-82.2%
+30.2%
New-build share
29.6%
10.8%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
2 prim · 0 sec
3 prim · 3 sec
Béal An Mhuirthead · 2 schools (largest first)
Sn Croi Muire Primary
131 pupils · CatholicDEISGaelscoil
S N Beal An Mhuirthead Primary
61 pupils · CatholicDEISGaelscoil
Ballina · 6 schools (largest first)
St. Mary's Secondary School Secondary
539 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
St Muredachs College Secondary
401 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Moyne College Secondary
207 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Íosa Primary
245 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Gaelscoil Na Gceithre Maol Primary
138 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Saint Michaels N S Primary
27 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Creches
2
9
GP practices
1
1
Pharmacies
2
12
Hospitals
0
1
Bus stops
1
6
Rail / Luas stops
0
1
Gyms & leisure
1
10
Parks & playgrounds
1
5
Sports pitches
5
26
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.
Galway
146m · ~170 rush
107m · ~130 rush
Limerick
201m · ~220 rush
153m · ~170 rush
Dublin
246m · ~280 rush
191m · ~225 rush
Cork
281m · ~305 rush
232m · ~255 rush
Waterford
307m · ~320 rush
252m · ~265 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-8.4
-13
Béal An Mhuirthead · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
-8BelmulletDisadvantaged
Ballina · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-19Ardnaree South UrbanVery disadvantaged
-16Ballina UrbanVery disadvantaged
-5Ballina RuralBelow average
+1Ardnaree South RuralAbove average
Third-level educated
28.1%
28.8%
Professional class
31.1%
29.3%
Unemployment
10.4%
18.1%
Owner-occupier
66.7%
61.4%
Private rental
22.1%
24.0%
Social housing (LA)
6.7%
10.3%
Liveability & safety● AREA · F26 / F26
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Béal An MhuirtheadF26, BallinaF26); safety & crime are the Mayo Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
68/100
68/100
National rank
#27
#27
County rank
#2
#2
Safety
82/100
82/100
Crime / 1,000
26.9
26.9

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.

Béal An Mhuirthead Disadvantaged-8.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Belmullet) — below the national average.
Ballina Disadvantaged-13.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ardnaree South Urban -19 (least affluent) → Ardnaree South Rural +1 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, 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. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

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

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 48 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
Béal An MhuirtheadBallina
The verdict

Ballina is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Béal An Mhuirthead’s 1, with 3 level: schools & amenities, public transport and affordability. Béal An Mhuirthead leads on affluence.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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