Town comparison · Bundoran vs Greencastle

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Bundoran or Greencastle?

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.

Bundoran, Co. Donegal · F94 · 2,109 people | Greencastle, Co. Donegal · F93 · 524 people

Bundoran is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Greencastle’s 2, with 2 level.

Bundoran leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
Greencastle leads on
affluenceeducation levels
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Bundoran aheadlevel or not comparableGreencastle ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BundoranGreencastle
iBundoran sits in F94, Greencastle in F93. 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.

Bundoran
Greencastle

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.

2,109
Population
524

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€205k
Median sale pricelower is better
€297k
Bundoran leads
€174k – €270k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€184k – €331k
117
Sales (24m)
24
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
4.3%
New-build share
N/A

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.

1 prim · 1 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Bundoran leads
Bundoran · 2 schools (largest first)
Magh Ene College Secondary
354 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
St Macartans Central Primary
282 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Greencastle · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Cholmcille Primary
142 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
2
Greencastle leads
1
GP practices
N/A
2
Pharmacies
0
Bundoran leads
0
Hospitals
0
8
Bus stops
3
Bundoran leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
3
Gyms & leisure
0
Bundoran leads
3
Parks & playgrounds
0
Bundoran leads
13
Sports pitches
4
Bundoran 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.

10
Restaurants
1
Bundoran leads
4
Cafés
0
Bundoran leads
9
Pubs & bars
1
Bundoran leads
3
Takeaways
0
Bundoran leads
1
Nightclubs
0
Bundoran leads
1
Cinema & theatre
0
Bundoran leads
75
Residents per venuelower is better
262
Bundoran 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
Bundoran leads
4
Convenience shops
1
Bundoran leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
1
Post offices
1
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
0
Bundoran leads
0
EV charging
0
1
Library & community centre
1
234
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
175
Greencastle 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.

154m · ~180 rush
Galwaylower is better
263m · ~285 rush
Bundoran leads
175m · ~210 rush
Dublinlower is better
229m · ~265 rush
Bundoran leads
200m · ~220 rush
Limericklower is better
310m · ~330 rush
Bundoran leads
271m · ~285 rush
Waterfordlower is better
334m · ~350 rush
Bundoran leads
280m · ~300 rush
Corklower is better
385m · ~405 rush
Bundoran leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-8.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-5.6
Greencastle leads
Bundoran · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-12Bundoran UrbanDisadvantaged
-7Bundoran UrbanBelow average
-5Bundoran RuralBelow average
0Bundoran RuralBelow average
Greencastle · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-9MovilleDisadvantaged
-6MovilleBelow average
-3GreencastleBelow average
-1GreencastleBelow average
31.3%
Third-level educated
34.3%
Greencastle leads
27.1%
Professional class
35.7%
Greencastle leads
17.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
11.5%
Greencastle leads
55.9%
Owner-occupier
72.1%
Greencastle leads
24.5%
Private rental
14.4%
14.1%
Social housing (LA)
9.6%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F94 / F93

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BundoranF94, GreencastleF93); safety & crime are the Donegal Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
54/100
Bundoran leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (F94 / F93) 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.

BundoranGreencastleOverall (avg)
Safety57715471
Affordability100100
Infrastructure2222
Family8380
Education2017
Environment7469
Economic2819
020406080100020406080100
#93
National ranklower is better
#101
Bundoran leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#3
Bundoran leads
71/100
Safety
71/100
44.8
Crime / 1,000
44.8

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.

Bundoran Disadvantaged-8.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Bundoran Urban -12 (least affluent) → Bundoran Rural 0 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Greencastle Below average-5.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Moville -9 (least affluent) → Greencastle -1 (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 (Donegal), 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 14 CSO Small Areas.

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