BallyporeenCo. South Tipperary vs CahirCo. South TipperaryTown 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 E21 — 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.
Ballyporeen
Cahir

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

TOWNS
Ballyporeen
Co. SOUTH TIPPERARY · in E21 · pop 346 · 1 small areas
Cahir
Co. SOUTH TIPPERARY · in E21 · pop 3,679 · 14 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€200k
€243k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€128k – €285k
€170k – €304k
Sales (24m)
11
145
Price momentum (YoY)
+18.3%
+25.9%
New-build share
0.0%
20.9%
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 · 1 sec
Ballyporeen · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Teampall Toinne Primary
138 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Cahir · 2 schools (largest first)
Colaiste Dun Iascaigh Secondary
904 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Bunscoil Na Cathrach Primary
428 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Creches
2
4
GP practices
0
1
Pharmacies
0
3
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
2
6
Rail / Luas stops
0
1
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.
Cork
56m · ~80 rush
60m · ~80 rush
Limerick
74m · ~90 rush
61m · ~80 rush
Waterford
82m · ~95 rush
64m · ~80 rush
Dublin
146m · ~180 rush
126m · ~160 rush
Galway
145m · ~170 rush
132m · ~155 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-5.2
-8.3
Ballyporeen · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-9BallyporeenDisadvantaged
-1BallyporeenBelow average
Cahir · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
-13KilcommonDisadvantaged
-10KilcommonDisadvantaged
-10CaherDisadvantaged
-6CaherBelow average
-5MortlestownBelow average
-2MortlestownBelow average
Third-level educated
26.9%
25.1%
Professional class
35.5%
25.6%
Unemployment
9.3%
12.9%
Owner-occupier
82.2%
65.9%
Private rental
6.8%
16.8%
Social housing (LA)
9.9%
12.6%
Liveability & safety● AREA · E21 / E21
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallyporeenE21, CahirE21); safety & crime are the Tipperary Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
71/100
71/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (E21 / E21) 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.

BallyporeenCahirOverall (avg)
Safety71567156
Affordability100100
Infrastructure8888
Family8181
Education5353
Environment8282
Economic4040
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#9
#9
County rank
#2
#2
Safety
56/100
56/100
Crime / 1,000
64.9
64.9

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.

Ballyporeen Below average-5.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballyporeen -9 (least affluent) → Ballyporeen -1 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Cahir Disadvantaged-8.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilcommon -13 (least affluent) → Mortlestown -2 (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 (Tipperary) — 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 15 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallyporeenCahir
The verdict

Ballyporeen is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Cahir’s 1, with 3 level: affluence, education levels and access to its nearest city. Cahir leads on public transport.

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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