BallonCo. Carlow vs BorrisCo. CarlowTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

Compare other towns
iBallon sits in R93, Borris in . Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
Ballon
Borris

Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

TOWNS
Ballon
Co. CARLOW · in R93 · pop 1,576 · 3 small areas
Borris
Co. CARLOW · in · pop · 1 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€295k
€255k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€272k – €370k
€191k – €360k
Sales (24m)
16
22
Price momentum (YoY)
-4.9%
New-build share
25.0%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
0 prim · 0 sec
Ballon · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Peadar Agus Pol Primary
250 pupils · Catholic
Borris · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Creches
1
0
GP practices
0
0
Pharmacies
0
0
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
2
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
1
Parks & playgrounds
0
1
Sports pitches
0
6
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.
Waterford
65m · ~80 rush
55m · ~70 rush
Dublin
80m · ~115 rush
94m · ~130 rush
Limerick
130m · ~150 rush
129m · ~145 rush
Cork
151m · ~175 rush
141m · ~165 rush
Galway
173m · ~195 rush
178m · ~200 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-1
-7.9
Ballon · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-2BallonBelow average
+2RathrushAbove average
Borris · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
-8BorrisBelow average
Third-level educated
38.8%
29.4%
Professional class
36.1%
31.7%
Unemployment
7.3%
11.2%
Owner-occupier
76.8%
65.3%
Private rental
13.4%
13.1%
Social housing (LA)
5.5%
15.9%
Liveability & safety● AREA · R93 /
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallonR93, Borris); safety & crime are the Kilkenny/Carlow Garda division.
Quality of Life
62/100
National rank
#66
County rank
#1
Safety
62/100
Crime / 1,000
57.6

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.

Ballon Below average-1.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballon -2 (least affluent) → Rathrush +2 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Borris Below average-7.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Borris) — below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, 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. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (Kilkenny/Carlow) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 4 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallonBorris
The verdict

Ballon is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Borris’s 2, with 2 level: affluence, education levels and safety. Borris leads on affordability and access to its nearest city.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

Compare other towns