Town comparison · Ballintogher vs Ballymote

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Ballintogher or Ballymote?

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 | Ballymote, Co. Sligo · F56 · 2,004 people

Ballintogher is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions to Ballymote’s 1, with 4 level.

Ballintogher leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Ballymote leads on
schools & amenities
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Ballintogher aheadlevel or not comparableBallymote ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallintogherBallymote
iBallintogher sits in F91, Ballymote in F56. 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
Ballymote

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
2,004

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€253k
Median sale pricelower is better
€180k
Ballymote leads
€123k – €287k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€121k – €237k
16
Sales (24m)
109
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
1.8%

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
2 prim · 2 sec
Ballymote leads
Ballintogher · 1 schools (largest first)
Ballintogher N S Primary
77 pupils · Catholic
Ballymote · 4 schools (largest first)
Coláiste Muire Secondary
331 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Corran College Secondary
134 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal Primary
225 pupils · CatholicDEIS
S N Cnoc Mionna Primary
59 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
4
Ballymote leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
3
Ballymote leads
0
Hospitals
0
4
Bus stops
4
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Ballymote leads
0
Gyms & leisure
1
Ballymote leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
1
3
Sports pitches
9
Ballymote 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
1
Ballymote leads
0
Cafés
2
Ballymote leads
0
Pubs & bars
5
Ballymote leads
0
Takeaways
2
Ballymote leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
2
Ballymote leads
N/A
Residents per venue
167

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
4
Ballymote leads
0
Convenience shops
1
Ballymote leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Ballymote leads
0
Banks
1
Ballymote leads
0
Post offices
1
Ballymote leads
0
Hairdressers
5
Ballymote leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Ballymote leads
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
3
Ballymote leads
N/A
Residents per shop or service
111

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
109m · ~135 rush
Ballymote leads
168m · ~185 rush
Limericklower is better
156m · ~175 rush
Ballymote leads
165m · ~200 rush
Dublinlower is better
157m · ~190 rush
Ballymote leads
239m · ~255 rush
Waterfordlower is better
227m · ~240 rush
Ballymote leads
248m · ~270 rush
Corklower is better
235m · ~255 rush
Ballymote leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-0.5
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-7.9
Ballintogher leads
Ballintogher · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-1Ballintogher EastBelow average
+0Ballintogher EastAbove average
Ballymote · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-12BallymoteDisadvantaged
-4BallymoteBelow average
34.7%
Third-level educated
31.3%
Ballintogher leads
35.6%
Professional class
31.1%
Ballintogher leads
6.2%
Unemploymentlower is better
14.5%
Ballintogher leads
76.5%
Owner-occupier
64.4%
Ballintogher leads
11.8%
Private rental
19.4%
10.7%
Social housing (LA)
11.6%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F91 / F56

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallintogherF91, BallymoteF56); 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 / F56) 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.

BallintogherBallymoteOverall (avg)
Safety71757175
Affordability100100
Infrastructure6988
Family7586
Education5222
Environment8282
Economic4543
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#10
National ranklower is better
#9
Ballymote leads
#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.
Ballymote Below average-7.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballymote -12 (least affluent) → Ballymote -4 (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 (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 9 CSO Small Areas.

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