Town comparison · Bellanagare vs Elphin

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Bellanagare or Elphin?

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.

Bellanagare, Co. Roscommon · F45 · 162 people | Elphin, Co. Roscommon · F45 · 533 people

Bellanagare and Elphin are closely matched. Each leads on 1 of the 7 dimensions, with 5 level.

Bellanagare leads on
access to its nearest city
Elphin leads on
education levels
63412

Bellanagare aheadlevel or not comparableElphin ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BellanagareElphin
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area F45 — 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. 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.

Bellanagare
Elphin

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.

162
Population
533

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€178k
Median sale pricelower is better
€145k
Elphin leads
€141k – €198k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€120k – €181k
4
Sales (24m)
45
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
0.0%

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 · 1 sec
Elphin leads
Bellanagare · 1 schools (largest first)
Ballanagare N S Primary
60 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Elphin · 2 schools (largest first)
Elphin Community College Secondary
193 pupils · 60% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Abbeycarton Ns Primary
161 pupils · CatholicDEIS
0
Creches
3
Elphin leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
0
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
5
Elphin leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
1
Elphin leads
2
Sports pitches
5
Elphin 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.

0
Restaurants
0
0
Cafés
0
0
Pubs & bars
0
0
Takeaways
0
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
N/A
Residents per venue
N/A

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

0
Supermarkets
0
0
Convenience shops
1
Elphin leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
0
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Elphin leads
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
0
N/A
Residents per shop or service
267

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.

91m · ~115 rush
Galwaylower is better
99m · ~125 rush
Bellanagare leads
132m · ~165 rush
Dublinlower is better
124m · ~160 rush
Elphin leads
137m · ~155 rush
Limericklower is better
144m · ~160 rush
Bellanagare leads
193m · ~205 rush
Waterfordlower is better
192m · ~205 rush
Elphin leads
217m · ~240 rush
Corklower is better
219m · ~240 rush
Bellanagare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-9.7
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-9.6
Elphin leads
Bellanagare · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-12BellanagareDisadvantaged
-8BellanagareBelow average
Elphin · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-12ElphinDisadvantaged
-7ElphinBelow average
25.7%
Third-level educated
28.4%
Elphin leads
31.6%
Professional class
30.5%
Bellanagare leads
12.9%
Unemploymentlower is better
16.3%
Bellanagare leads
85.2%
Owner-occupier
62.9%
Bellanagare leads
8.5%
Private rental
20.5%
1.6%
Social housing (LA)
13.2%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F45 / F45

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BellanagareF45, ElphinF45); safety & crime are the Roscommon/Longford Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

60/100
Quality of Life
60/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (F45 / F45) 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.

BellanagareElphinOverall (avg)
Safety60776077
Affordability100100
Infrastructure3535
Family8888
Education1818
Environment8080
Economic2525
020406080100020406080100
#81
National rank
#81
#3
County rank
#3
77/100
Safety
77/100
35
Crime / 1,000
35

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.

Bellanagare Disadvantaged-9.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Bellanagare -12 (least affluent) → Bellanagare -8 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Elphin Disadvantaged-9.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Elphin -12 (least affluent) → Elphin -7 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below 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 (Roscommon/Longford), 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 3 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Bellanagare

The towns are level, so these are from the first.

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