BallycanewCo. Wexford vs Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-ArdamineCo. WexfordTown level

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

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iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area Y25 — 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.
Ballycanew
Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-Ardamine

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

TOWNS
Ballycanew
Co. WEXFORD · in Y25 · pop 544 · 2 small areas
Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-Ardamine
Co. WEXFORD · in Y25 · pop 4,365 · 20 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€305k
€255k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€245k – €425k
€205k – €285k
Sales (24m)
37
92
Price momentum (YoY)
+25.0%
-1.9%
New-build share
0.0%
0.0%
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
1 prim · 0 sec
Ballycanew · 1 schools (largest first)
Ballycanew N S Primary
230 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-Ardamine · 1 schools (largest first)
Riverchapel N S Primary
304 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Creches
3
3
GP practices
0
0
Pharmacies
0
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
5
23
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
0
0
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
72m · ~85 rush
74m · ~90 rush
Dublin
79m · ~115 rush
78m · ~115 rush
Cork
168m · ~190 rush
170m · ~190 rush
Limerick
175m · ~195 rush
178m · ~195 rush
Galway
207m · ~230 rush
206m · ~230 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-9.4
-8.2
Ballycanew · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-13BallycanewDisadvantaged
-6BallycanewBelow average
Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-Ardamine · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-11ArdamineDisadvantaged
-7ArdamineBelow average
-2CourtownBelow average
-1CourtownBelow average
Third-level educated
23.3%
27.7%
Professional class
28.0%
30.9%
Unemployment
12.8%
17.4%
Owner-occupier
76.9%
71.6%
Private rental
12.2%
20.4%
Social housing (LA)
9.0%
6.9%
Liveability & safety● AREA · Y25 / Y25
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallycanewY25, Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-ArdamineY25); safety & crime are the Wexford Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
63/100
63/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (Y25 / Y25) 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.

BallycanewCourtown Harbour-Riverchapel-ArdamineOverall (avg)
Safety63646364
Affordability8989
Infrastructure5959
Family7676
Education3030
Environment8282
Economic3838
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#62
#62
County rank
#2
#2
Safety
64/100
64/100
Crime / 1,000
52.9
52.9

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.

Ballycanew Disadvantaged-9.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballycanew -13 (least affluent) → Ballycanew -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-Ardamine Disadvantaged-8.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ardamine -11 (least affluent) → Courtown -1 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is 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 (Wexford) — 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 22 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallycanewCourtown Harbour-Riverchapel-Ardamine
The verdict

Courtown Harbour-Riverchapel-Ardamine is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Ballycanew’s 0, with 4 level: education levels, public transport and affordability. Ballycanew doesn’t lead on any.

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

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