Town comparison · Bandon vs Glenville

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Bandon or Glenville?

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.

Bandon, Co. Cork · P72 · 6,899 people | Glenville, Co. Cork · T56 · 501 people

Glenville is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Bandon’s 3.

Bandon leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportsafety
Glenville leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaffordabilityaccess to its nearest city
291112

Bandon aheadlevel or not comparableGlenville ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BandonGlenville
iBandon sits in P72, Glenville in T56. 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.

Bandon
Glenville

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.

6,899
Population
501

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€330k
Median sale pricelower is better
€300k
Glenville leads
€267k – €396k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€159k – €350k
404
Sales (24m)
14
+3.0%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
38.9%
New-build share
N/A

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.

4 prim · 3 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Bandon leads
Bandon · 7 schools (largest first)
St. Brogan's College Secondary
861 pupils · 50% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Coláiste Na Toirbhirte Secondary
451 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh Secondary
429 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Bandon Primary School Primary
376 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Bhride Primary
190 pupils · Catholic
S N Droichead Na Bandan Primary
187 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Gaelscoil Droichead Na Banndan Primary
167 pupils · Catholic
Glenville · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Mhuire Primary
150 pupils · Catholic
12
Creches
1
Bandon leads
1
GP practices
N/A
7
Pharmacies
0
Bandon leads
0
Hospitals
0
7
Bus stops
2
Bandon leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
13
Gyms & leisure
0
Bandon leads
4
Parks & playgrounds
1
Bandon leads
33
Sports pitches
2
Bandon 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.

6
Restaurants
0
Bandon leads
9
Cafés
0
Bandon leads
15
Pubs & bars
1
Bandon leads
7
Takeaways
0
Bandon leads
1
Nightclubs
0
Bandon leads
0
Cinema & theatre
0
182
Residents per venuelower is better
501
Bandon 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.

4
Supermarkets
0
Bandon leads
7
Convenience shops
1
Bandon leads
4
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Bandon leads
5
Banks
0
Bandon leads
1
Post offices
0
Bandon leads
6
Hairdressers
0
Bandon leads
3
Dentists
0
Bandon leads
3
Vets
0
Bandon leads
7
Filling stations
0
Bandon leads
3
EV charging
0
Bandon leads
2
Library & community centre
0
Bandon leads
153
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
501
Bandon 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.

30m · ~50 rush
Corklower is better
27m · ~45 rush
Glenville leads
117m · ~135 rush
Limericklower is better
93m · ~110 rush
Glenville leads
131m · ~145 rush
Waterfordlower is better
105m · ~120 rush
Glenville leads
186m · ~210 rush
Galwaylower is better
163m · ~185 rush
Glenville leads
201m · ~235 rush
Dublinlower is better
170m · ~205 rush
Glenville leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-3.7
Affluence (Pobal HP)
5
Glenville leads
Bandon · 8 EDs, poorest → richest
-9BandonDisadvantaged
-7BandonBelow average
-4BallymodanBelow average
-2BallymodanBelow average
+3KilbroganAbove average
+3KilbroganAbove average
+7InishannonAffluent
+10InishannonAffluent
Glenville · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+4GlenvilleAbove average
+6GlenvilleAffluent
33.0%
Third-level educated
40.0%
Glenville leads
32.4%
Professional class
48.0%
Glenville leads
11.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
3.1%
Glenville leads
59.9%
Owner-occupier
90.5%
Glenville leads
25.4%
Private rental
6.1%
11.4%
Social housing (LA)
0.5%

Liveability & safety

AREA · P72 / T56

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BandonP72, GlenvilleT56); safety & crime are the Cork West Garda division.

70/100
Quality of Life
66/100
Bandon leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (P72 / T56) 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.

BandonGlenvilleOverall (avg)
Safety70896661
Affordability8468
Infrastructure5226
Family8392
Education5365
Environment6669
Economic6079
020406080100020406080100
#18
National ranklower is better
#20
Bandon leads
#5
County ranklower is better
#4
Glenville leads
89/100
Safety
61/100
Bandon leads
17.3
Crime / 1,000lower is better
58.8
Bandon 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.

Bandon Below average-3.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Bandon -9 (least affluent) → Inishannon +10 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Glenville Affluent+5.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Glenville +4 (least affluent) → Glenville +6 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above 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 (Cork West), 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 27 CSO Small Areas.

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