Town comparison · Bundoran vs Killybegs

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Bundoran or Killybegs?

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 | Killybegs, Co. Donegal · F94 · 1,258 people

Bundoran is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Killybegs’s 0, with 4 level.

Bundoran leads on
education levelsschools & amenitiespublic transport
182113

Bundoran aheadlevel or not comparableKillybegs ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BundoranKillybegs
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area F94 — 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.

Bundoran
Killybegs

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
1,258

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€205k
Median sale pricelower is better
€162k
Killybegs leads
€174k – €270k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€86k – €232k
117
Sales (24m)
34
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
4.3%
New-build share
8.8%

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
3 prim · 1 sec
Killybegs 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
Killybegs · 4 schools (largest first)
St. Catherine's Vocational School Secondary
366 pupils · 40% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
S N Neill Mor Primary
225 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Killybegs Common N S Primary
73 pupils · CatholicDEIS
S N Fhionntra Primary
22 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
3
Killybegs leads
1
GP practices
1
2
Pharmacies
2
0
Hospitals
0
8
Bus stops
5
Bundoran leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
3
Gyms & leisure
0
Bundoran leads
3
Parks & playgrounds
3
13
Sports pitches
8
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
6
Bundoran leads
4
Cafés
5
Killybegs leads
9
Pubs & bars
3
Bundoran leads
3
Takeaways
2
Bundoran leads
1
Nightclubs
0
Bundoran leads
1
Cinema & theatre
0
Bundoran leads
75
Residents per venuelower is better
79
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
3
Killybegs leads
4
Convenience shops
2
Bundoran leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Killybegs leads
0
Banks
3
Killybegs leads
1
Post offices
1
0
Hairdressers
2
Killybegs leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
2
Killybegs leads
0
EV charging
1
Killybegs leads
1
Library & community centre
1
234
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
79
Killybegs 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
200m · ~225 rush
Bundoran leads
175m · ~210 rush
Dublinlower is better
209m · ~245 rush
Bundoran leads
200m · ~220 rush
Limericklower is better
246m · ~265 rush
Bundoran leads
271m · ~285 rush
Waterfordlower is better
306m · ~320 rush
Bundoran leads
280m · ~300 rush
Corklower is better
325m · ~345 rush
Bundoran leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-8.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-9.1
Bundoran leads
Bundoran · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-12Bundoran UrbanDisadvantaged
-7Bundoran UrbanBelow average
-5Bundoran RuralBelow average
0Bundoran RuralBelow average
Killybegs · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-11KillybegsDisadvantaged
-7KillybegsBelow average
31.3%
Third-level educated
25.0%
Bundoran leads
27.1%
Professional class
24.9%
Bundoran leads
17.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
11.2%
Killybegs leads
55.9%
Owner-occupier
76.3%
Killybegs leads
24.5%
Private rental
11.8%
14.1%
Social housing (LA)
9.0%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F94 / F94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BundoranF94, KillybegsF94); safety & crime are the Donegal Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
57/100

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

BundoranKillybegsOverall (avg)
Safety57715771
Affordability100100
Infrastructure2222
Family8383
Education2020
Environment7474
Economic2828
020406080100020406080100
#93
National rank
#93
#2
County rank
#2
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.
Killybegs Disadvantaged-9.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Killybegs -11 (least affluent) → Killybegs -7 (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 17 CSO Small Areas.

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