Town comparison · Ballintogher vs Ballisodare

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Ballintogher or Ballisodare?

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.

Ballintogher, Co. Sligo · F91 · 351 people | Ballisodare, Co. Sligo · F91 · 1,747 people

Ballintogher and Ballisodare are closely matched. Each leads on 1 of the 7 dimensions, with 5 level.

Ballintogher leads on
affordability
Ballisodare leads on
education levels
42919

Ballintogher aheadlevel or not comparableBallisodare ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallintogherBallisodare
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area F91 — 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. 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.

Ballintogher
Ballisodare

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.

351
Population
1,747

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€253k
Median sale pricelower is better
€308k
Ballintogher leads
€123k – €287k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€277k – €340k
16
Sales (24m)
81
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
44.4%

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.

1 prim · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 1 sec
Ballisodare leads
Ballintogher · 1 schools (largest first)
Ballintogher N S Primary
77 pupils · Catholic
Ballisodare · 2 schools (largest first)
St Marys College Secondary
229 pupils · 60% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
S N Eoin Naofa Primary
222 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
3
Ballisodare leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Hospitals
0
4
Bus stops
6
Ballisodare leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
1
Ballisodare leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
1
3
Sports pitches
3

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
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Cafés
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Pubs & bars
3
Ballisodare leads
0
Takeaways
0
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
N/A
Residents per venue
349

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
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Convenience shops
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
0
0
Hairdressers
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
0
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
0
N/A
Residents per shop or service
437

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.

122m · ~145 rush
Galwaylower is better
117m · ~140 rush
Ballisodare leads
165m · ~200 rush
Dublinlower is better
160m · ~195 rush
Ballisodare leads
168m · ~185 rush
Limericklower is better
163m · ~180 rush
Ballisodare leads
239m · ~255 rush
Waterfordlower is better
235m · ~250 rush
Ballisodare leads
248m · ~270 rush
Corklower is better
243m · ~265 rush
Ballisodare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-0.5
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-0.8
Ballintogher leads
Ballintogher · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-1Ballintogher EastBelow average
+0Ballintogher EastAbove average
Ballisodare · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-3Ballysadare EastBelow average
-3CollooneyBelow average
+1Ballysadare EastAbove average
+2CollooneyAbove average
34.7%
Third-level educated
41.0%
Ballisodare leads
35.6%
Professional class
39.8%
Ballisodare leads
6.2%
Unemploymentlower is better
9.6%
Ballintogher leads
76.5%
Owner-occupier
68.4%
Ballintogher leads
11.8%
Private rental
19.0%
10.7%
Social housing (LA)
12.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F91 / F91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallintogherF91, BallisodareF91); safety & crime are the Sligo/Leitrim Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

71/100
Quality of Life
71/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (F91 / F91) 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.

BallintogherBallisodareOverall (avg)
Safety71757175
Affordability100100
Infrastructure6969
Family7575
Education5252
Environment8282
Economic4545
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#10
National rank
#10
#1
County rank
#1
75/100
Safety
75/100
37.3
Crime / 1,000
37.3

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.

Ballintogher Below average-0.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballintogher East -1 (least affluent) → Ballintogher East +0 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Ballisodare Below average-0.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballysadare East -3 (least affluent) → Collooney +2 (most affluent). It straddles 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 (Sligo/Leitrim), 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 10 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Ballintogher

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