Town comparison · Ballyvaughan vs Sixmilebridge

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Ballyvaughan or Sixmilebridge?

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.

Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare · H91 · 361 people | Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare · V95 · 2,832 people

Sixmilebridge is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Ballyvaughan’s 2, with 2 level.

Ballyvaughan leads on
education levelsaffordability
Sixmilebridge leads on
public transportsafetyaccess to its nearest city
171916

Ballyvaughan aheadlevel or not comparableSixmilebridge ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallyvaughanSixmilebridge
iBallyvaughan sits in H91, Sixmilebridge in V95. 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.

Ballyvaughan
Sixmilebridge

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.

361
Population
2,832

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€265k
Median sale pricelower is better
€338k
Ballyvaughan leads
€158k – €296k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€270k – €381k
16
Sales (24m)
110
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
32.7%

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 · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Ballyvaughan · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Eoin Baiste Primary
49 pupils · Catholic
Sixmilebridge · 1 schools (largest first)
Sixmilebridge N S Primary
437 pupils · Catholic
0
Creches
3
Sixmilebridge leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
0
0
Hospitals
0
7
Bus stops
8
Sixmilebridge leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Sixmilebridge leads
0
Gyms & leisure
2
Sixmilebridge leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
1
4
Sports pitches
1
Ballyvaughan 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.

4
Restaurants
1
Ballyvaughan leads
6
Cafés
0
Ballyvaughan leads
4
Pubs & bars
1
Ballyvaughan leads
1
Takeaways
0
Ballyvaughan leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
24
Residents per venuelower is better
1,416
Ballyvaughan 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
Ballyvaughan leads
1
Convenience shops
0
Ballyvaughan leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
1
Post offices
0
Ballyvaughan leads
1
Hairdressers
0
Ballyvaughan leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
0
Ballyvaughan leads
0
EV charging
1
Sixmilebridge leads
1
Library & community centre
0
Ballyvaughan leads
60
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
2,832
Ballyvaughan 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.

72m · ~90 rush
Limericklower is better
20m · ~35 rush
Sixmilebridge leads
50m · ~75 rush
Galwaylower is better
68m · ~90 rush
Ballyvaughan leads
151m · ~175 rush
Corklower is better
100m · ~120 rush
Sixmilebridge leads
185m · ~200 rush
Waterfordlower is better
134m · ~150 rush
Sixmilebridge leads
172m · ~205 rush
Dublinlower is better
154m · ~190 rush
Sixmilebridge leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-1.4
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-1.2
Sixmilebridge leads
Ballyvaughan · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-4DrumcreehyBelow average
+1DrumcreehyAbove average
Sixmilebridge · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-3SixmilebridgeBelow average
-3SixmilebridgeBelow average
0MountieversBelow average
+4MountieversAffluent
47.6%
Third-level educated
38.0%
Ballyvaughan leads
36.8%
Professional class
40.0%
Sixmilebridge leads
8.8%
Unemploymentlower is better
9.2%
Ballyvaughan leads
69.3%
Owner-occupier
76.6%
Sixmilebridge leads
17.9%
Private rental
13.7%
7.2%
Social housing (LA)
6.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · H91 / V95

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallyvaughanH91, SixmilebridgeV95); safety & crime are the Galway Garda division.

69/100
Quality of Life
70/100
Sixmilebridge leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (H91 / V95) 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.

BallyvaughanSixmilebridgeOverall (avg)
Safety69617068
Affordability7591
Infrastructure8165
Family7581
Education5052
Environment8880
Economic5552
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#26
National ranklower is better
#18
Sixmilebridge leads
#1
County rank
#1
61/100
Safety
68/100
Sixmilebridge leads
60.1
Crime / 1,000lower is better
48.8
Sixmilebridge 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.

Ballyvaughan Below average-1.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Drumcreehy -4 (least affluent) → Drumcreehy +1 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Sixmilebridge Below average-1.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Sixmilebridge -3 (least affluent) → Mountievers +4 (most affluent). It straddles 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 (Galway), 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 10 CSO Small Areas.

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