BanagherCo. Offaly vs BirrCo. OffalyTown 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 R42 — 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.
Banagher
Birr

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

TOWNS
Banagher
Co. OFFALY · in R42 · pop · 5 small areas
Birr
Co. OFFALY · in R42 · pop · 13 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€245k
€232k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€162k – €279k
€138k – €332k
Sales (24m)
8
24
Price momentum (YoY)
+122.5%
+52.8%
New-build share
0.0%
11.1%
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 · 1 sec
3 prim · 1 sec
Banagher · 2 schools (largest first)
Banagher College Secondary
563 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Rynaghs N S Primary
251 pupils · Catholic
Birr · 4 schools (largest first)
St.brendan's Community School Secondary
847 pupils · 50% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
St Brendans Monastery Primary
189 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Mercy Primary School Primary
139 pupils · CatholicDEIS
S N Osmann Primary
86 pupils · Church Of IrelandDEIS
Creches
2
4
GP practices
1
1
Pharmacies
3
4
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
1
5
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
1
5
Parks & playgrounds
0
1
Sports pitches
3
12
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.
Limerick
72m · ~90 rush
68m · ~85 rush
Galway
73m · ~95 rush
83m · ~105 rush
Dublin
112m · ~145 rush
108m · ~145 rush
Waterford
124m · ~140 rush
112m · ~125 rush
Cork
144m · ~165 rush
132m · ~155 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-8.3
-10
Banagher · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
-8BanagherDisadvantaged
Birr · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
-10Birr UrbanDisadvantaged
Third-level educated
28.3%
30.3%
Professional class
30.3%
28.1%
Unemployment
12.2%
14.8%
Owner-occupier
64.9%
52.9%
Private rental
18.1%
25.1%
Social housing (LA)
13.3%
16.9%
Liveability & safety● AREA · R42 / R42
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BanagherR42, BirrR42); safety & crime are the Laois/Offaly Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
63/100
63/100
National rank
#62
#62
County rank
#1
#1
Safety
40/100
40/100
Crime / 1,000
90.8
90.8

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.

Banagher Disadvantaged-8.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Banagher) — below the national average.
Birr Disadvantaged-10.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Birr Urban) — 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 (Laois/Offaly) — 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 18 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BanagherBirr
The verdict

Birr is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Banagher’s 1, with 3 level: education levels, schools & amenities and access to its nearest city. Banagher leads on affluence.

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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