Town comparison · Ballindrait vs Bundoran

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Ballindrait or Bundoran?

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.

Ballindrait, Co. Donegal · F92 · 100 people | Bundoran, Co. Donegal · F94 · 2,109 people

Bundoran is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Ballindrait’s 0, with 3 level.

Bundoran leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transport
52027

Ballindrait aheadlevel or not comparableBundoran ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallindraitBundoran
iBallindrait sits in F92, Bundoran in F94. 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.

Ballindrait
Bundoran

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.

100
Population
2,109

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€160k
Median sale pricelower is better
€205k
Ballindrait leads
€106k – €221k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€174k – €270k
14
Sales (24m)
117
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
4.3%

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.

0 prim · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 1 sec
Bundoran leads
Ballindrait · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Bundoran · 2 schools (largest first)
Magh Ene College Secondary
354 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
St Macartans Central Primary
282 pupils · CatholicDEIS
0
Creches
1
Bundoran leads
N/A
GP practices
1
0
Pharmacies
2
Bundoran leads
0
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
8
Bundoran leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
3
Bundoran leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
3
Bundoran leads
0
Sports pitches
13
Bundoran 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
Bundoran leads
0
Cafés
4
Bundoran leads
0
Pubs & bars
9
Bundoran leads
0
Takeaways
3
Bundoran leads
0
Nightclubs
1
Bundoran leads
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Bundoran leads
N/A
Residents per venue
75

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
2
Bundoran leads
0
Convenience shops
4
Bundoran leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
1
Bundoran leads
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Bundoran leads
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
1
Bundoran leads
N/A
Residents per shop or service
234

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.

218m · ~240 rush
Galwaylower is better
154m · ~180 rush
Bundoran leads
176m · ~210 rush
Dublinlower is better
175m · ~210 rush
Bundoran leads
264m · ~280 rush
Limericklower is better
200m · ~220 rush
Bundoran leads
281m · ~295 rush
Waterfordlower is better
271m · ~285 rush
Bundoran leads
331m · ~355 rush
Corklower is better
280m · ~300 rush
Bundoran leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-18.2
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-8.1
Bundoran leads
Ballindrait · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-19Clonleigh SouthVery disadvantaged
-17Clonleigh SouthVery disadvantaged
Bundoran · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-12Bundoran UrbanDisadvantaged
-7Bundoran UrbanBelow average
-5Bundoran RuralBelow average
0Bundoran RuralBelow average
20.2%
Third-level educated
31.3%
Bundoran leads
21.8%
Professional class
27.1%
Bundoran leads
25.4%
Unemploymentlower is better
17.0%
Bundoran leads
63.7%
Owner-occupier
55.9%
Ballindrait leads
17.7%
Private rental
24.5%
14.3%
Social housing (LA)
14.1%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F92 / F94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallindraitF92, BundoranF94); safety & crime are the Donegal Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

59/100
Quality of Life
57/100
Ballindrait leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (F92 / F94) 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.

BallindraitBundoranOverall (avg)
Safety59715771
Affordability100100
Infrastructure2722
Family7583
Education3120
Environment7774
Economic2928
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#85
National ranklower is better
#93
Ballindrait leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#2
Ballindrait 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.

Ballindrait 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.
Bundoran Disadvantaged-8.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Bundoran Urban -12 (least affluent) → Bundoran Rural 0 (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 12 CSO Small Areas.

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