Town comparison · Bunratty vs Sixmilebridge

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Bunratty or Sixmilebridge?

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 | Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare · V95 · 2,832 people

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

Bunratty leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Sixmilebridge leads on
public transportaffordability
19258

Bunratty aheadlevel or not comparableSixmilebridge ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BunrattySixmilebridge
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area V95 — 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.

Bunratty
Sixmilebridge

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
2,832

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€361k
Median sale pricelower is better
€330k
Sixmilebridge leads
€352k – €410k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€263k – €375k
46
Sales (24m)
107
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
78.3%
New-build share
33.6%

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 · 0 sec
Sixmilebridge leads
Bunratty · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Sixmilebridge · 1 schools (largest first)
Sixmilebridge N S Primary
437 pupils · Catholic
0
Creches
3
Sixmilebridge leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
0
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
8
Sixmilebridge leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Sixmilebridge leads
0
Gyms & leisure
2
Sixmilebridge leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
1
Sixmilebridge leads
1
Sports pitches
1

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
1
Bunratty leads
2
Cafés
0
Bunratty leads
5
Pubs & bars
1
Bunratty leads
0
Takeaways
0
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
29
Residents per venuelower is better
1,416
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
0
Bunratty leads
1
Convenience shops
0
Bunratty leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
1
Post offices
0
Bunratty leads
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
0
Bunratty leads
0
EV charging
1
Sixmilebridge leads
0
Library & community centre
0
72
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
2,832
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
20m · ~35 rush
Bunratty leads
65m · ~90 rush
Galwaylower is better
68m · ~90 rush
Bunratty leads
95m · ~115 rush
Corklower is better
100m · ~120 rush
Bunratty leads
129m · ~145 rush
Waterfordlower is better
134m · ~150 rush
Bunratty leads
149m · ~185 rush
Dublinlower is better
154m · ~190 rush
Bunratty leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
2.5
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-1.2
Bunratty leads
Bunratty · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+2DrumlineAbove average
+3DrumlineAbove average
Sixmilebridge · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-3SixmilebridgeBelow average
-3SixmilebridgeBelow average
0MountieversBelow average
+4MountieversAffluent
45.6%
Third-level educated
38.0%
Bunratty leads
43.7%
Professional class
40.0%
Bunratty leads
7.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
9.2%
Bunratty leads
81.7%
Owner-occupier
76.6%
Bunratty leads
18.7%
Private rental
13.7%
0.8%
Social housing (LA)
6.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V95 / V95

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BunrattyV95, SixmilebridgeV95); safety & crime are the Clare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

70/100
Quality of Life
70/100

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

BunrattySixmilebridgeOverall (avg)
Safety70687068
Affordability9191
Infrastructure6565
Family8181
Education5252
Environment8080
Economic5252
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#18
National rank
#18
#1
County rank
#1
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.
Sixmilebridge Below average-1.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Sixmilebridge -3 (least affluent) → Mountievers +4 (most affluent). It straddles 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 10 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Bunratty

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

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