Town comparison · Ballisodare vs Rosses Point

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Ballisodare or Rosses Point?

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 | Rosses Point, Co. Sligo · F91 · 883 people

Rosses Point is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Ballisodare’s 1, with 3 level.

Ballisodare leads on
affordability
Rosses Point leads on
affluenceeducation levelspublic transport
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Ballisodare aheadlevel or not comparableRosses Point ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallisodareRosses Point
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.

Ballisodare
Rosses Point

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
883

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€308k
Median sale pricelower is better
€610k
Ballisodare leads
€277k – €340k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€365k – €835k
81
Sales (24m)
29
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
44.4%
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
1 prim · 0 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
Rosses Point · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Realt Na Mara Primary
116 pupils · Catholic
3
Creches
0
Ballisodare leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
0
Ballisodare leads
0
Hospitals
0
6
Bus stops
10
Rosses Point leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
1
Gyms & leisure
0
Ballisodare leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
0
Ballisodare leads
3
Sports pitches
5
Rosses Point 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.

1
Restaurants
3
Rosses Point leads
1
Cafés
2
Rosses Point leads
3
Pubs & bars
3
0
Takeaways
0
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
349
Residents per venuelower is better
110
Rosses Point 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
0
Ballisodare leads
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
1
Rosses Point leads
1
Hairdressers
0
Ballisodare leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
0
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
1
Rosses Point leads
437
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
294
Rosses Point 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
131m · ~155 rush
Ballisodare leads
160m · ~195 rush
Dublinlower is better
174m · ~210 rush
Ballisodare leads
163m · ~180 rush
Limericklower is better
177m · ~195 rush
Ballisodare leads
235m · ~250 rush
Waterfordlower is better
248m · ~260 rush
Ballisodare leads
243m · ~265 rush
Corklower is better
257m · ~280 rush
Ballisodare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-0.8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
5.2
Rosses Point leads
Ballisodare · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-3Ballysadare EastBelow average
-3CollooneyBelow average
+1Ballysadare EastAbove average
+2CollooneyAbove average
Rosses Point · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+5Drumcliff WestAffluent
+6Drumcliff WestAffluent
41.0%
Third-level educated
57.8%
Rosses Point leads
39.8%
Professional class
59.8%
Rosses Point leads
9.6%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.4%
Rosses Point leads
68.4%
Owner-occupier
85.2%
Rosses Point leads
19.0%
Private rental
10.3%
12.4%
Social housing (LA)
2.2%

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 (BallisodareF91, Rosses PointF91); 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.

BallisodareRosses PointOverall (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.

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.
Rosses Point Affluent+5.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Drumcliff West +5 (least affluent) → Drumcliff West +6 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above 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 13 CSO Small Areas.

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