Town comparison · Carrick-on-Suir vs Dundrum

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Carrick-on-Suir or Dundrum?

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.

Carrick-on-Suir, Co. South Tipperary · E32 · 4,549 people | Dundrum, Co. South Tipperary · E34 · 221 people

Carrick-on-Suir is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Dundrum’s 2, with 2 level.

Carrick-on-Suir leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
Dundrum leads on
affluenceaccess to its nearest city
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Carrick-on-Suir aheadlevel or not comparableDundrum ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
Carrick-on-SuirDundrum
iCarrick-on-Suir sits in E32, Dundrum in E34. 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.

Carrick-on-Suir
Dundrum

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.

4,549
Population
221

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€185k
Median sale pricelower is better
€260k
Carrick-on-Suir leads
€114k – €289k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€176k – €295k
47
Sales (24m)
30
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
19.1%
New-build share
20.0%

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.

4 prim · 3 sec
Schools
0 prim · 0 sec
Carrick-on-Suir leads
Carrick-on-Suir · 7 schools (largest first)
Comeragh College Secondary
565 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Mhuire Secondary
486 pupils · 40% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICDEIS
Edmund Rice Secondary School Secondary
316 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Clochar Na Toirbhirte Primary
289 pupils · CatholicDEIS
S N Mhuire Na Mbraithre Primary
124 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Gaelscoil Charraig Na Siuire Primary
111 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Carrickbeg N S Primary
107 pupils · Catholic
Dundrum · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
7
Creches
2
Carrick-on-Suir leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
4
Pharmacies
1
Carrick-on-Suir leads
1
Hospitals
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
6
Bus stops
2
Carrick-on-Suir leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
9
Gyms & leisure
1
Carrick-on-Suir leads
3
Parks & playgrounds
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
28
Sports pitches
6
Carrick-on-Suir 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.

1
Restaurants
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
6
Cafés
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
13
Pubs & bars
2
Carrick-on-Suir leads
7
Takeaways
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
0
Nightclubs
0
1
Cinema & theatre
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
162
Residents per venuelower is better
111
Dundrum 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.

3
Supermarkets
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
5
Convenience shops
1
Carrick-on-Suir leads
5
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
2
Banks
1
Carrick-on-Suir leads
1
Post offices
1
6
Hairdressers
1
Carrick-on-Suir leads
1
Dentists
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
1
Vets
1
4
Filling stations
1
Carrick-on-Suir leads
3
EV charging
0
Carrick-on-Suir leads
1
Library & community centre
1
142
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
32
Dundrum 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.

121m · ~155 rush
Dublinlower is better
18m · ~35 rush
Dundrum leads
27m · ~40 rush
Waterfordlower is better
119m · ~135 rush
Carrick-on-Suir leads
93m · ~115 rush
Corklower is better
179m · ~200 rush
Carrick-on-Suir leads
94m · ~110 rush
Limericklower is better
140m · ~160 rush
Carrick-on-Suir leads
165m · ~190 rush
Galwaylower is better
152m · ~175 rush
Dundrum leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-15.9
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-13.1
Dundrum leads
Carrick-on-Suir · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-19Carrick-on-suir UrbanVery disadvantaged
-15Carrick-on-suir UrbanDisadvantaged
-14Carrickbeg UrbanDisadvantaged
-9Carrickbeg UrbanDisadvantaged
Dundrum · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-15KilpatrickDisadvantaged
-11KilpatrickDisadvantaged
18.4%
Third-level educated
17.4%
Carrick-on-Suir leads
18.7%
Professional class
22.3%
Dundrum leads
20.6%
Unemploymentlower is better
13.7%
Dundrum leads
57.9%
Owner-occupier
92.4%
Dundrum leads
18.7%
Private rental
2.8%
17.9%
Social housing (LA)
3.1%

Liveability & safety

AREA · E32 / E34

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Carrick-on-SuirE32, DundrumE34); safety & crime are the Tipperary Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

60/100
Quality of Life
66/100
Dundrum leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (E32 / E34) 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.

Carrick-on-SuirDundrumOverall (avg)
Safety60566656
Affordability100100
Infrastructure8889
Family7275
Education1426
Environment6482
Economic2632
020406080100020406080100
#81
National ranklower is better
#35
Dundrum leads
#6
County ranklower is better
#2
Dundrum leads
56/100
Safety
56/100
64.9
Crime / 1,000
64.9

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.

Carrick-on-Suir Disadvantaged-15.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Carrick-on-suir Urban -19 (least affluent) → Carrickbeg Urban -9 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Dundrum Disadvantaged-13.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilpatrick -15 (least affluent) → Kilpatrick -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 (Tipperary), 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 22 CSO Small Areas.

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