Town comparison · Belturbet vs Shercock

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Belturbet or Shercock?

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.

Belturbet, Co. Cavan · H14 · 1,491 people | Shercock, Co. Cavan · A81 · 574 people

Belturbet and Shercock are closely matched. Each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level.

Belturbet leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transport
Shercock leads on
affluenceaccess to its nearest city
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Belturbet aheadlevel or not comparableShercock ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BelturbetShercock
iBelturbet sits in H14, Shercock in A81. 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.

Belturbet
Shercock

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.

1,491
Population
574

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€192k
Median sale pricelower is better
€229k
Belturbet leads
€143k – €279k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€147k – €339k
98
Sales (24m)
42
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
3.1%
New-build share
2.4%

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.

3 prim · 1 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Belturbet leads
Belturbet · 4 schools (largest first)
St Bricin's College Secondary
252 pupils · 60% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Convent Of Mercy N S Primary
164 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Sn Mhuire Boys Senior School Primary
76 pupils · Catholic
Fairgreen N S Primary
37 pupils · Church Of IrelandDEIS
Shercock · 1 schools (largest first)
Searcog I N S Primary
181 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
1
N/A
GP practices
1
2
Pharmacies
1
Belturbet leads
1
Hospitals
0
Belturbet leads
10
Bus stops
2
Belturbet leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
3
Gyms & leisure
3
7
Parks & playgrounds
4
Belturbet leads
17
Sports pitches
4
Belturbet 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
Belturbet leads
3
Cafés
0
Belturbet leads
10
Pubs & bars
5
Belturbet leads
2
Takeaways
4
Shercock leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
78
Residents per venuelower is better
57
Shercock 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.

2
Supermarkets
0
Belturbet leads
3
Convenience shops
4
Shercock leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Belturbet leads
0
Banks
1
Shercock leads
1
Post offices
1
3
Hairdressers
1
Belturbet leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
3
Filling stations
2
Belturbet leads
1
EV charging
0
Belturbet leads
4
Library & community centre
1
Belturbet leads
78
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
57
Shercock 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.

106m · ~140 rush
Dublinlower is better
85m · ~120 rush
Shercock leads
147m · ~170 rush
Galwaylower is better
169m · ~195 rush
Belturbet leads
185m · ~205 rush
Limericklower is better
204m · ~220 rush
Belturbet leads
202m · ~215 rush
Waterfordlower is better
188m · ~200 rush
Shercock leads
247m · ~270 rush
Corklower is better
249m · ~270 rush
Belturbet leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-12
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-5.1
Shercock leads
Belturbet · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
-12BelturbetDisadvantaged
Shercock · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-7ShercockBelow average
-3ShercockBelow average
27.9%
Third-level educated
26.6%
Belturbet leads
27.2%
Professional class
25.6%
Belturbet leads
19.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
8.4%
Shercock leads
45.7%
Owner-occupier
65.9%
Shercock leads
28.8%
Private rental
21.1%
18.4%
Social housing (LA)
7.8%

Liveability & safety

AREA · H14 / A81

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BelturbetH14, ShercockA81); safety & crime are the Cavan/Monaghan Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

56/100
Quality of Life
70/100
Shercock leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (H14 / A81) 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.

BelturbetShercockOverall (avg)
Safety56747074
Affordability10098
Infrastructure3089
Family8280
Education1832
Environment6282
Economic2536
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#27
National ranklower is better
#18
Shercock leads
#2
County rank
#2
74/100
Safety
74/100
40
Crime / 1,000
40

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.

Belturbet Disadvantaged-12.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Belturbet) — below the national average.
Shercock Below average-5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Shercock -7 (least affluent) → Shercock -3 (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 (Cavan/Monaghan), 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.

Homes for sale in Belturbet

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