iBlackrock sits in T12, Blarney in T23. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Blackrock is a city suburb — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.
Blackrock
Blarney
Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.
TOWNS
Blackrock
Co. CORK CITY · in T12 · pop — · 3 small areas
Blarney
Co. CORK CITY · in T23 · pop — · 10 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€425k
€328k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€330k – €559k
€250k – €426k
Sales (24m)
219
168
Price momentum (YoY)
-3.3%
-6.7%
New-build share
0.2%
16.7%
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
0 prim · 1 sec
1 prim · 0 sec
Blackrock · 1 schools (largest first)
Christ King Girls' Secondary School Secondary
703 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Blarney · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Chroí Íosa Primary
287 pupils · Catholic
Creches
0
6
GP practices
0
1
Pharmacies
0
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
1
4
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
3
0
Sports pitches
4
3
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.
Cork
9m · ~15 rush
13m · ~20 rush
Limerick
94m · ~110 rush
79m · ~95 rush
Waterford
105m · ~120 rush
116m · ~130 rush
Galway
164m · ~190 rush
149m · ~175 rush
Dublin
175m · ~210 rush
186m · ~220 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
▸Affluence (Pobal HP)
-1.1
2.7
Blackrock · 3 EDs, poorest → richest
-4Mahon BBelow average
-1Mahon ABelow average
+1Tramore CAbove average
Blarney · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+3BlarneyAbove average
Third-level educated
44.0%
43.6%
Professional class
39.6%
43.5%
Unemployment
9.1%
5.6%
Owner-occupier
53.1%
75.1%
Private rental
21.5%
16.5%
Social housing (LA)
21.8%
6.8%
Liveability & safety● AREA · T12 / T23
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Blackrock → T12, Blarney → T23); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
66/100
60/100
National rank
#35
#81
County rank
#9
#15
Safety
61/100
61/100
Crime / 1,000
58.8
58.8
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.
BlackrockBelow average-1.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Mahon B -3 (least affluent) → Tramore C +1 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
BlarneyAbove average+2.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Blarney) — above the national average.
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.
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 (Cork City) — 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 13 CSO Small Areas.
BlackrockBlarney
The verdict
Blarney is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions to Blackrock’s 0, with 5 level: affluence and affordability. Blackrock doesn’t lead on any.
Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.
Homes for sale in Blarney— the stronger town on the data