CastleknockCo. Dublin City vs RingsendCo. Dublin CityTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iCastleknock sits in D15, Ringsend in D04. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Castleknock & Ringsend 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.
Castleknock
Ringsend

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

TOWNS
Castleknock
Co. DUBLIN CITY · in D15 · pop 3,716 · 12 small areas
Ringsend
Co. DUBLIN CITY · in D04 · pop 1,819 · 6 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€539k
€469k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€430k – €747k
€394k – €581k
Sales (24m)
642
168
Price momentum (YoY)
-8.2%
-9.3%
New-build share
2.2%
0.5%
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
1 prim · 1 sec
0 prim · 1 sec
Castleknock · 2 schools (largest first)
Castleknock Community College Secondary
1,290 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Patricks Ns Primary
891 pupils · Catholic
Ringsend · 3 schools (largest first)
Loreto College Secondary
584 pupils · 90% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICFee-paying
Royal Irish Academy Of Music Third-level
enrolment n/a · college
Dublin Business School Third-level
enrolment n/a · private_college
Creches
2
1
GP practices
1
5
Pharmacies
1
3
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
11
27
Rail / Luas stops
0
3
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
0
0
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.
Dublin
17m · ~35 rush
7m · ~15 rush
Waterford
118m · ~130 rush
121m · ~135 rush
Limerick
139m · ~155 rush
142m · ~160 rush
Galway
144m · ~170 rush
152m · ~175 rush
Cork
178m · ~200 rush
181m · ~205 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
6.8
4.7
Castleknock · 8 EDs, poorest → richest
-7Blanchardstown-coolmineBelow average
-6Blanchardstown-coolmineBelow average
0Blanchardstown-delwoodBelow average
+0Blanchardstown-delwoodAbove average
+8Castleknock-knockmaroonAffluent
+9Castleknock-knockmaroonAffluent
+9Castleknock-parkAffluent
+10Castleknock-parkAffluent
Ringsend · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-2Pembroke East ABelow average
+10Mansion House BAffluent
+10Pembroke West AAffluent
+13Pembroke West BVery affluent
Third-level educated
60.1%
63.3%
Professional class
56.0%
47.1%
Unemployment
7.1%
6.9%
Owner-occupier
71.7%
38.1%
Private rental
24.4%
44.9%
Social housing (LA)
3.1%
13.8%
Liveability & safety● AREA · D15 / D04
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (CastleknockD15, RingsendD04); safety & crime are the DMR West Garda division.
Quality of Life
66/100
65/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (D15 / D04) 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.

CastleknockRingsendOverall (avg)
Safety66486560
Affordability6615
Infrastructure100100
Family6038
Education6378
Environment6980
Economic5386
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#35
#49
County rank
#10
#12
Safety
48/100
60/100
Crime / 1,000
79.6
60.2

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.

Castleknock Affluent+6.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Blanchardstown-coolmine -7 (least affluent) → Castleknock-park +10 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Ringsend Affluent+4.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Pembroke East A -1 (least affluent) → Pembroke West B +13 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, 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. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

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 (DMR West) — 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 18 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CastleknockRingsend
The verdict

Ringsend is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Castleknock’s 1, with 2 level: education levels, public transport, safety and affordability. Castleknock leads on affluence.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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