Town comparison · Ballisodare vs Easky

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Ballisodare or Easky?

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.

Ballisodare, Co. Sligo · F91 · 1,747 people | Easky, Co. Sligo · F26 · 235 people

Ballisodare and Easky are closely matched. Each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level.

Ballisodare leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Easky leads on
safetyaffordability
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Ballisodare aheadlevel or not comparableEasky ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallisodareEasky
iBallisodare sits in F91, Easky in F26. 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.

Ballisodare
Easky

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.

1,747
Population
235

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€309k
Median sale pricelower is better
€172k
Easky leads
€283k – €340k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€172k – €172k
86
Sales (24m)
1
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
45.3%
New-build share
N/A

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 · 1 sec
Schools
0 prim · 1 sec
Ballisodare leads
Ballisodare · 2 schools (largest first)
St Marys College Secondary
229 pupils · 60% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
S N Eoin Naofa Primary
222 pupils · Catholic
Easky · 1 schools (largest first)
Coláiste Iascaigh Secondary
247 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
3
Creches
1
Ballisodare leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
0
Ballisodare leads
0
Hospitals
0
6
Bus stops
2
Ballisodare leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
1
Gyms & leisure
0
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.

1
Restaurants
1
1
Cafés
0
Ballisodare leads
3
Pubs & bars
1
Ballisodare leads
0
Takeaways
1
Easky leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
349
Residents per venuelower is better
78
Easky leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

1
Supermarkets
0
Ballisodare leads
1
Convenience shops
1
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Easky leads
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
1
Easky leads
1
Hairdressers
0
Ballisodare leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Easky leads
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
2
Easky leads
437
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
34
Easky leads

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.

117m · ~140 rush
Galwaylower is better
133m · ~155 rush
Ballisodare leads
160m · ~195 rush
Dublinlower is better
189m · ~225 rush
Ballisodare leads
163m · ~180 rush
Limericklower is better
179m · ~195 rush
Ballisodare leads
235m · ~250 rush
Waterfordlower is better
264m · ~280 rush
Ballisodare leads
243m · ~265 rush
Corklower is better
259m · ~280 rush
Ballisodare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-0.8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-8.6
Ballisodare leads
Ballisodare · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-3Ballysadare EastBelow average
-3CollooneyBelow average
+1Ballysadare EastAbove average
+2CollooneyAbove average
Easky · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-13Easky EastDisadvantaged
-10Easky WestDisadvantaged
-8Easky EastBelow average
-4Easky WestBelow average
41.0%
Third-level educated
27.4%
Ballisodare leads
39.8%
Professional class
31.7%
Ballisodare leads
9.6%
Unemploymentlower is better
13.3%
Ballisodare leads
68.4%
Owner-occupier
78.4%
Easky leads
19.0%
Private rental
7.4%
12.4%
Social housing (LA)
9.9%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F91 / F26

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallisodareF91, EaskyF26); safety & crime are the Sligo/Leitrim Garda division.

71/100
Quality of Life
68/100
Ballisodare leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (F91 / F26) 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.

BallisodareEaskyOverall (avg)
Safety71756882
Affordability100100
Infrastructure6988
Family7583
Education5216
Environment8282
Economic4522
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#10
National ranklower is better
#28
Ballisodare leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#2
Ballisodare leads
75/100
Safety
82/100
Easky leads
37.3
Crime / 1,000lower is better
26.9
Easky leads

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.

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.
Easky Disadvantaged-8.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Easky East -13 (least affluent) → Easky West -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 11 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Ballisodare

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