Town comparison · Bunratty vs Kilkee

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Bunratty or Kilkee?

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.

Bunratty, Co. Clare · V95 · 288 people | Kilkee, Co. Clare · V15 · 976 people

Bunratty is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Kilkee’s 1, with 3 level.

Bunratty leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaccess to its nearest city
Kilkee leads on
affordability
182212

Bunratty aheadlevel or not comparableKilkee ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BunrattyKilkee
iBunratty sits in V95, Kilkee in V15. 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.

Bunratty
Kilkee

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.

288
Population
976

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€361k
Median sale pricelower is better
€240k
Kilkee leads
€352k – €410k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€167k – €320k
46
Sales (24m)
105
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
78.3%
New-build share
3.8%

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.

0 prim · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 1 sec
Kilkee leads
Bunratty · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Kilkee · 2 schools (largest first)
St Joseph's Community College Secondary
171 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Realt Na Mara Primary
129 pupils · CatholicDEIS
0
Creches
2
Kilkee leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
1
Kilkee leads
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
1
Bunratty leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
1
Kilkee leads
1
Sports pitches
8
Kilkee 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.

3
Restaurants
6
Kilkee leads
2
Cafés
1
Bunratty leads
5
Pubs & bars
8
Kilkee leads
0
Takeaways
3
Kilkee leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
29
Residents per venuelower is better
54
Bunratty 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.

1
Supermarkets
1
1
Convenience shops
1
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Kilkee leads
0
Banks
0
1
Post offices
1
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
0
Bunratty leads
0
EV charging
1
Kilkee leads
0
Library & community centre
1
Kilkee leads
72
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
163
Bunratty 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.

16m · ~25 rush
Limericklower is better
82m · ~100 rush
Bunratty leads
65m · ~90 rush
Galwaylower is better
106m · ~130 rush
Bunratty leads
95m · ~115 rush
Corklower is better
162m · ~185 rush
Bunratty leads
129m · ~145 rush
Waterfordlower is better
196m · ~210 rush
Bunratty leads
149m · ~185 rush
Dublinlower is better
216m · ~250 rush
Bunratty leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
2.5
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-14.3
Bunratty leads
Bunratty · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+2DrumlineAbove average
+3DrumlineAbove average
Kilkee · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-18KilkeeVery disadvantaged
-11KilkeeDisadvantaged
45.6%
Third-level educated
25.9%
Bunratty leads
43.7%
Professional class
24.4%
Bunratty leads
7.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
22.9%
Bunratty leads
81.7%
Owner-occupier
60.6%
Bunratty leads
18.7%
Private rental
15.1%
0.8%
Social housing (LA)
17.2%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V95 / V15

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BunrattyV95, KilkeeV15); safety & crime are the Clare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

70/100
Quality of Life
53/100
Bunratty leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V95 / V15) 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.

BunrattyKilkeeOverall (avg)
Safety70685368
Affordability91100
Infrastructure6522
Family8181
Education5218
Environment8060
Economic5225
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#18
National ranklower is better
#103
Bunratty leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#2
Bunratty leads
68/100
Safety
68/100
48.8
Crime / 1,000
48.8

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.

Bunratty Above average+2.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Drumline +2 (least affluent) → Drumline +3 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Kilkee Disadvantaged-14.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilkee -18 (least affluent) → Kilkee -11 (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 (Clare), 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 5 CSO Small Areas.

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The stronger town on the data.

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