iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area V94 — 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.
!Caherdavin & Castletroy are city suburbs — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.
Caherdavin
Castletroy
Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.
TOWNS
Caherdavin
Co. Limerick · in V94 · pop — · 1 small areas
Castletroy
Co. Limerick · in V94 · pop — · 53 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€325k
€370k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€295k – €361k
€300k – €435k
Sales (24m)
53
509
Price momentum (YoY)
+2.4%
+0.7%
New-build share
2.2%
7.7%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
▸Schools
0 prim · 0 sec
3 prim · 2 sec
Caherdavin · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Castletroy · 6 schools (largest first)
Castletroy College Secondary
1,329 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Limerick City East Secondary School Secondary
714 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
University Of Limerick Third-level
enrolment n/a · university
Scoil Moin A Lin Primary
847 pupils · Catholic
Milford Grange N School Primary
479 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Chaladh An Treoigh Primary
417 pupils · Catholic
Creches
0
12
GP practices
0
1
Pharmacies
0
6
Hospitals
1
1
Bus stops
1
34
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
5
Parks & playgrounds
0
1
Sports pitches
0
25
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.
Limerick
3m · ~5 rush
9m · ~15 rush
Galway
81m · ~105 rush
86m · ~110 rush
Cork
86m · ~110 rush
91m · ~115 rush
Waterford
120m · ~135 rush
118m · ~130 rush
Dublin
140m · ~175 rush
138m · ~175 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
▸Affluence (Pobal HP)
-19.9
7
Caherdavin · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
Castletroy · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+7BallysimonAffluent
Third-level educated
15.6%
64.3%
Professional class
13.5%
42.8%
Unemployment
16.1%
6.4%
Owner-occupier
62.8%
59.2%
Private rental
16.3%
35.5%
Social housing (LA)
14.7%
2.9%
Liveability & safety● AREA · V94 / V94
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Caherdavin → V94, Castletroy → V94); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
62/100
62/100
National rank
#66
#66
County rank
#1
#1
Safety
42/100
42/100
Crime / 1,000
88.4
88.4
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.
CaherdavinVery disadvantaged-19.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Abbey D) — below the national average.
CastletroyAffluent+7.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Ballysimon) — above the national average.
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. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.
Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).
● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.
Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (Limerick) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.
Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 54 CSO Small Areas.
CaherdavinCastletroy
The verdict
Castletroy is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Caherdavin’s 1, with 2 level: affluence, education levels, schools & amenities and public transport. Caherdavin leads on affordability.
Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.
Homes for sale in Castletroy— the stronger town on the data