BlarneyCo. Cork City vs GrangeCo. Cork CityTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iBlarney sits in T23, Grange in P31. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Grange 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.
Blarney
Grange

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

TOWNS
Blarney
Co. CORK CITY · in T23 · pop · 10 small areas
Grange
Co. CORK CITY · in P31 · pop · 4 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€328k
€395k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€250k – €426k
€339k – €441k
Sales (24m)
168
164
Price momentum (YoY)
-6.7%
+7.5%
New-build share
16.7%
24.9%
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 · 0 sec
0 prim · 1 sec
Blarney · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Chroí Íosa Primary
287 pupils · Catholic
Grange · 1 schools (largest first)
Christ King Girls' Secondary School Secondary
703 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Creches
6
0
GP practices
1
1
Pharmacies
1
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
4
3
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
1
Parks & playgrounds
0
3
Sports pitches
3
5
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
13m · ~20 rush
11m · ~20 rush
Limerick
79m · ~95 rush
86m · ~105 rush
Waterford
116m · ~130 rush
115m · ~130 rush
Galway
149m · ~175 rush
156m · ~180 rush
Dublin
186m · ~220 rush
183m · ~220 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
2.7
4.5
Blarney · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+3BlarneyAbove average
Grange · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+1Tramore CAbove average
+3RathcormackAbove average
+5BallincolligAffluent
+9BallygromanAffluent
Third-level educated
43.6%
48.2%
Professional class
43.5%
48.1%
Unemployment
5.6%
5.5%
Owner-occupier
75.1%
72.7%
Private rental
16.5%
17.7%
Social housing (LA)
6.8%
7.1%
Liveability & safety● AREA · T23 / P31
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BlarneyT23, GrangeP31); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division.
Quality of Life
60/100
72/100
National rank
#81
#4
County rank
#15
#2
Safety
61/100
56/100
Crime / 1,000
58.8
67

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.

Blarney Above average+2.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Blarney) — above the national average.
Grange Affluent+4.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Tramore C +1 (least affluent) → Ballygroman +9 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above 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 (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 14 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BlarneyGrange
The verdict

Blarney and Grange are closely matched — each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level. Blarney is ahead on safety and affordability; Grange on affluence and education levels.

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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