iBallincollig sits in P31, Blackrock in T12. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Ballincollig & Blackrock are city suburbs — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.
Ballincollig
Blackrock
Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.
TOWNS
Ballincollig
Co. CORK CITY · in P31 · pop — · 7 small areas
Blackrock
Co. CORK CITY · in T12 · pop — · 3 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€402k
€425k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€325k – €460k
€330k – €559k
Sales (24m)
314
219
Price momentum (YoY)
+19.2%
-3.3%
New-build share
9.8%
0.2%
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
1 prim · 0 sec
0 prim · 1 sec
Ballincollig · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Naomh Eoin B Primary
391 pupils · Catholic
Blackrock · 1 schools (largest first)
Christ King Girls' Secondary School Secondary
703 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Creches
4
0
GP practices
3
0
Pharmacies
4
0
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
5
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
3
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
3
Sports pitches
1
4
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.
Cork
13m · ~20 rush
9m · ~15 rush
Limerick
93m · ~110 rush
94m · ~110 rush
Waterford
115m · ~130 rush
105m · ~120 rush
Galway
163m · ~185 rush
164m · ~190 rush
Dublin
185m · ~220 rush
175m · ~210 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
▸Affluence (Pobal HP)
5.4
-1.1
Ballincollig · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+5BallincolligAffluent
Blackrock · 3 EDs, poorest → richest
-4Mahon BBelow average
-1Mahon ABelow average
+1Tramore CAbove average
Third-level educated
52.0%
44.0%
Professional class
50.0%
39.6%
Unemployment
5.4%
9.1%
Owner-occupier
72.5%
53.1%
Private rental
16.9%
21.5%
Social housing (LA)
7.6%
21.8%
Liveability & safety● AREA · P31 / T12
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Ballincollig → P31, Blackrock → T12); safety & crime are the Cork North Garda division.
Quality of Life
72/100
66/100
National rank
#4
#35
County rank
#2
#9
Safety
56/100
61/100
Crime / 1,000
67
58.8
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.
BallincolligAffluent+5.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Ballincollig) — above the national average.
BlackrockBelow average-1.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Mahon B -3 (least affluent) → Tramore C +1 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
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.
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 (Cork North) — 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 10 CSO Small Areas.
BallincolligBlackrock
The verdict
Ballincollig is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Blackrock’s 1, with 3 level: affluence, education levels and affordability. Blackrock leads on safety.
Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.
Homes for sale in Ballincollig— the stronger town on the data