Town comparison · Calverstown vs Clane

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Calverstown or Clane?

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.

Calverstown, Co. Kildare · R56 · 652 people | Clane, Co. Kildare · W91 · 6,209 people

Clane is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 6 of the 7 dimensions to Calverstown’s 0, with 1 level.

Clane leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportaffordabilityaccess to its nearest city
81430

Calverstown aheadlevel or not comparableClane ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CalverstownClane
iCalverstown sits in R56, Clane in W91. 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.

Calverstown
Clane

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.

652
Population
6,209

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€546k
Median sale pricelower is better
€410k
Clane leads
€455k – €659k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€316k – €461k
18
Sales (24m)
426
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
+0.6%
N/A
New-build share
51.9%

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 · 0 sec
Schools
3 prim · 2 sec
Clane leads
Calverstown · 1 schools (largest first)
Ballyshannon N S Primary
123 pupils · Catholic
Clane · 5 schools (largest first)
Scoil Mhuire Community School Secondary
1,183 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Clongowes Wood College Secondary
433 pupils · 85% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICFee-paying
Scoil Naisiunta Bhride Primary
490 pupils · Catholic
St Patricks Bns Primary
474 pupils · Catholic
Hewetsons N S Primary
87 pupils · Church Of Ireland
1
Creches
8
Clane leads
N/A
GP practices
5
0
Pharmacies
4
Clane leads
0
Hospitals
1
Clane leads
4
Bus stops
19
Clane leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
15
Clane leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
1
Clane leads
6
Sports pitches
28
Clane 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.

0
Restaurants
9
Clane leads
0
Cafés
4
Clane leads
2
Pubs & bars
4
Clane leads
0
Takeaways
6
Clane leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
326
Residents per venuelower is better
270
Clane 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.

0
Supermarkets
4
Clane leads
1
Convenience shops
2
Clane leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
3
Clane leads
0
Banks
2
Clane leads
0
Post offices
2
Clane leads
0
Hairdressers
16
Clane leads
0
Dentists
3
Clane leads
0
Vets
1
Clane leads
0
Filling stations
2
Clane leads
0
EV charging
2
Clane leads
0
Library & community centre
9
Clane leads
652
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
135
Clane 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.

49m · ~85 rush
Dublinlower is better
38m · ~75 rush
Clane leads
81m · ~95 rush
Waterfordlower is better
96m · ~110 rush
Calverstown leads
114m · ~130 rush
Limericklower is better
118m · ~135 rush
Calverstown leads
151m · ~175 rush
Galwaylower is better
133m · ~155 rush
Clane leads
153m · ~175 rush
Corklower is better
157m · ~180 rush
Calverstown leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
0.8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
3.5
Clane leads
Calverstown · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+0BallyshannonAbove average
+2BallyshannonAbove average
Clane · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+3ClaneAbove average
+4ClaneAffluent
40.6%
Third-level educated
47.5%
Clane leads
47.8%
Professional class
46.0%
Calverstown leads
8.0%
Unemployment
8.0%
80.2%
Owner-occupier
72.0%
Calverstown leads
8.6%
Private rental
20.9%
7.0%
Social housing (LA)
6.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · R56 / W91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (CalverstownR56, ClaneW91); safety & crime are the Kildare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

69/100
Quality of Life
66/100
Calverstown leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (R56 / W91) 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.

CalverstownClaneOverall (avg)
Safety69636663
Affordability7166
Infrastructure8864
Family8181
Education3756
Environment8273
Economic5862
020406080100020406080100
#12
National ranklower is better
#35
Calverstown leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#2
Calverstown leads
63/100
Safety
63/100
55.1
Crime / 1,000
55.1

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.

Calverstown Above average+0.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballyshannon +0 (least affluent) → Ballyshannon +2 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Clane Above average+3.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Clane +3 (least affluent) → Clane +4 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above 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 (Kildare), 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 24 CSO Small Areas.

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