Town comparison · Bridgetown vs Rosslare

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Bridgetown or Rosslare?

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.

Bridgetown, Co. Wexford · Y35 · 269 people | Rosslare, Co. Wexford · Y35 · 1,611 people

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

Bridgetown leads on
affluenceaffordability
Rosslare leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transport
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Bridgetown aheadlevel or not comparableRosslare ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BridgetownRosslare
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area Y35 — 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.

Bridgetown
Rosslare

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.

269
Population
1,611

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€198k
Median sale pricelower is better
€293k
Bridgetown leads
€165k – €255k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€234k – €431k
39
Sales (24m)
172
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
2.6%
New-build share
2.9%

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.

0 prim · 1 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Bridgetown · 1 schools (largest first)
Bridgetown College Secondary
637 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Rosslare · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Clochar Mhuire Primary
172 pupils · CatholicDEIS
1
Creches
2
Rosslare leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
1
0
Hospitals
0
3
Bus stops
19
Rosslare leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Rosslare leads
0
Gyms & leisure
0
1
Parks & playgrounds
7
Rosslare leads
4
Sports pitches
19
Rosslare 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
3
Rosslare leads
1
Cafés
2
Rosslare leads
0
Pubs & bars
3
Rosslare leads
0
Takeaways
3
Rosslare leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
269
Residents per venuelower is better
146
Rosslare 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.

0
Supermarkets
0
1
Convenience shops
4
Rosslare leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
1
Rosslare leads
0
Hairdressers
2
Rosslare leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Rosslare leads
0
EV charging
3
Rosslare leads
0
Library & community centre
1
Rosslare leads
269
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
134
Rosslare 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.

59m · ~75 rush
Waterfordlower is better
60m · ~75 rush
Bridgetown leads
121m · ~155 rush
Dublinlower is better
117m · ~150 rush
Rosslare leads
155m · ~175 rush
Corklower is better
156m · ~180 rush
Bridgetown leads
169m · ~185 rush
Limericklower is better
170m · ~190 rush
Bridgetown leads
235m · ~260 rush
Galwaylower is better
232m · ~255 rush
Rosslare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-2.7
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-5.2
Bridgetown leads
Bridgetown · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-7KilmoreBelow average
+2KilmoreAbove average
Rosslare · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-7RosslareBelow average
-3RosslareBelow average
34.0%
Third-level educated
34.4%
Rosslare leads
38.9%
Professional class
35.8%
Bridgetown leads
9.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
11.2%
Bridgetown leads
68.1%
Owner-occupier
69.8%
Rosslare leads
13.3%
Private rental
17.6%
4.4%
Social housing (LA)
13.8%

Liveability & safety

AREA · Y35 / Y35

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BridgetownY35, RosslareY35); safety & crime are the Wexford Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

64/100
Quality of Life
64/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (Y35 / Y35) 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.

BridgetownRosslareOverall (avg)
Safety64646464
Affordability9494
Infrastructure6868
Family7070
Education3838
Environment8282
Economic3333
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#58
National rank
#58
#1
County rank
#1
64/100
Safety
64/100
52.9
Crime / 1,000
52.9

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.

Bridgetown Below average-2.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilmore -7 (least affluent) → Kilmore +2 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Rosslare Below average-5.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Rosslare -7 (least affluent) → Rosslare -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 (Wexford), 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 8 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Bridgetown

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

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