Town comparison · Carrignavar vs Douglas

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Carrignavar or Douglas?

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.

Carrignavar, Co. Cork · T34 · 563 people | Douglas, Co. Cork · T12 · 29,878 people

Douglas is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 5 of the 7 dimensions to Carrignavar’s 1, with 1 level.

Carrignavar leads on
affordability
Douglas leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportsafety
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Carrignavar aheadlevel or not comparableDouglas ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CarrignavarDouglas
iCarrignavar sits in T34, Douglas in T12. 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.
!Douglas is a city suburb — 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.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Carrignavar
Douglas

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.

563
Population
29,878

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€260k
Median sale pricelower is better
€414k
Carrignavar leads
€195k – €476k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€325k – €499k
11
Sales (24m)
931
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
+4.2%
N/A
New-build share
39.5%

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 · 1 sec
Schools
6 prim · 2 sec
Douglas leads
Carrignavar · 2 schools (largest first)
Coláiste An Chroí Naofa Secondary
451 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Scoil An Athar Tadhg Primary
330 pupils · Catholic
Douglas · 8 schools (largest first)
St Francis Capuchin College Secondary
777 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Douglas Community School Secondary
562 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Douglas Rochestown Educate Together National School Primary
513 pupils · Multi Denominational
Scoil Phadraig Naofa Primary
465 pupils · Catholic
Scoil An Athair Tadhg O Murchu Primary
438 pupils · Catholic
St Columbas N.s Primary
370 pupils · Catholic
Douglas B N S Primary
364 pupils · Catholic
St Lukes N S Douglas Primary
207 pupils · Church Of Ireland
2
Creches
23
Douglas leads
1
GP practices
8
Douglas leads
0
Pharmacies
7
Douglas leads
0
Hospitals
0
4
Bus stops
70
Douglas leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
2
Gyms & leisure
31
Douglas leads
3
Parks & playgrounds
4
Douglas leads
6
Sports pitches
56
Douglas 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
24
Douglas leads
0
Cafés
20
Douglas leads
2
Pubs & bars
10
Douglas leads
0
Takeaways
16
Douglas leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
188
Residents per venuelower is better
427
Carrignavar 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
6
Douglas leads
1
Convenience shops
11
Douglas leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Douglas leads
0
Banks
5
Douglas leads
0
Post offices
1
Douglas leads
0
Hairdressers
16
Douglas leads
0
Dentists
7
Douglas leads
0
Vets
4
Douglas leads
0
Filling stations
6
Douglas leads
1
EV charging
4
Douglas leads
1
Library & community centre
4
Douglas leads
188
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
453
Carrignavar 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.

18m · ~30 rush
Corklower is better
9m · ~15 rush
Douglas leads
86m · ~105 rush
Limericklower is better
96m · ~115 rush
Carrignavar leads
117m · ~130 rush
Waterfordlower is better
109m · ~125 rush
Douglas leads
156m · ~180 rush
Galwaylower is better
166m · ~190 rush
Carrignavar leads
181m · ~215 rush
Dublinlower is better
179m · ~215 rush
Douglas leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-2.3
Affluence (Pobal HP)
7.6
Douglas leads
Carrignavar · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-7WhitechurchBelow average
-7WhitechurchBelow average
+1CarrignavarAbove average
+3CarrignavarAbove average
Douglas · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+6Douglas/lehenaghAffluent
+8Carrigaline/monkstown Rural/douglasAffluent
+8DouglasAffluent
+10DouglasAffluent
33.9%
Third-level educated
58.6%
Douglas leads
39.5%
Professional class
53.2%
Douglas leads
8.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
5.2%
Douglas leads
91.6%
Owner-occupier
70.5%
Carrignavar leads
7.1%
Private rental
22.5%
1.0%
Social housing (LA)
4.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · T34 / T12

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (CarrignavarT34, DouglasT12); safety & crime are the Garda division.

N/A
Quality of Life
66/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (T34 / T12) 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.

CarrignavarDouglasOverall (avg)
Safety6661
Affordability72
Infrastructure86
Family64
Education55
Environment62
Economic64
020406080100020406080100
N/A
National rank
#35
N/A
County rank
#9
N/A
Safety
61/100
Crime / 1,000
58.8

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.

Carrignavar Below average-2.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Whitechurch -7 (least affluent) → Carrignavar +3 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Douglas Affluent+7.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Douglas/lehenagh +7 (least affluent) → Douglas +10 (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 (), 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 113 CSO Small Areas.

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