BlarneyCo. Cork City vs RochestownCo. 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, Rochestown in T12. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Rochestown 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
Rochestown

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
Rochestown
Co. CORK CITY · in T12 · pop · 5 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€328k
€398k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€250k – €426k
€335k – €510k
Sales (24m)
168
234
Price momentum (YoY)
-6.7%
+1.6%
New-build share
16.7%
16.6%
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
Rochestown · 1 schools (largest first)
Christ King Girls' Secondary School Secondary
703 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Creches
6
0
GP practices
1
0
Pharmacies
1
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
4
10
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
1
Parks & playgrounds
0
3
Sports pitches
3
8
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
10m · ~15 rush
Limerick
79m · ~95 rush
95m · ~115 rush
Waterford
116m · ~130 rush
104m · ~120 rush
Galway
149m · ~175 rush
165m · ~190 rush
Dublin
186m · ~220 rush
175m · ~210 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
2.7
6.5
Blarney · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+3BlarneyAbove average
Rochestown · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+1Tramore CAbove average
+8Carrigaline/monkstown Rural/douglasAffluent
Third-level educated
43.6%
57.4%
Professional class
43.5%
52.4%
Unemployment
5.6%
5.7%
Owner-occupier
75.1%
66.9%
Private rental
16.5%
23.3%
Social housing (LA)
6.8%
6.9%
Liveability & safety● AREA · T23 / T12
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BlarneyT23, RochestownT12); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
60/100
66/100
National rank
#81
#35
County rank
#15
#9
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.

Blarney Above average+2.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Blarney) — above the national average.
Rochestown Affluent+6.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Tramore C +1 (least affluent) → Carrigaline/monkstown Rural/douglas +8 (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 15 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BlarneyRochestown
The verdict

Rochestown is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Blarney’s 1, with 3 level: affluence, education levels and public transport. Blarney leads on affordability.

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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