Town comparison · Celbridge vs Sallins

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Celbridge or Sallins?

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.

Celbridge, Co. Kildare · W23 · 20,105 people | Sallins, Co. Kildare · W91 · 6,269 people

Celbridge and Sallins are closely matched. Each leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions, with 1 level.

Celbridge leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaccess to its nearest city
Sallins leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaffordability
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Celbridge aheadlevel or not comparableSallins ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CelbridgeSallins
iCelbridge sits in W23, Sallins 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.

Celbridge
Sallins

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.

20,105
Population
6,269

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€448k
Median sale pricelower is better
€400k
Sallins leads
€396k – €555k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€303k – €493k
423
Sales (24m)
195
+20.1%
Price momentum (YoY)
+10.8%
20.8%
New-build share
6.7%

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.

6 prim · 3 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Celbridge leads
Celbridge · 9 schools (largest first)
Salesian College Secondary
842 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
St Wolstan's Community School Secondary
820 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Celbridge Community School Secondary
714 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Aghards N S Primary
665 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Na Mainistreach Primary
460 pupils · Catholic
North Kildare Educate Together Ns Primary
435 pupils · Multi Denominational
Scoil Naomh Padraig Primary
384 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Naomh Brid Primary
258 pupils · Catholic
Primrose Hill Ns Primary
113 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Sallins · 1 schools (largest first)
St Laurences National School Primary
652 pupils · Catholic
18
Creches
7
Celbridge leads
3
GP practices
N/A
7
Pharmacies
1
Celbridge leads
1
Hospitals
0
Celbridge leads
54
Bus stops
11
Celbridge leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Sallins leads
17
Gyms & leisure
1
Celbridge leads
8
Parks & playgrounds
2
Celbridge leads
45
Sports pitches
10
Celbridge 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.

11
Restaurants
1
Celbridge leads
8
Cafés
1
Celbridge leads
9
Pubs & bars
3
Celbridge leads
7
Takeaways
2
Celbridge leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
574
Residents per venuelower is better
896
Celbridge leads

Celbridge is a large town and Sallins is a small town, so their national rankings aren’t like-for-like — each is ranked only against places of its own size. Compare them on the residents-per-venue row instead.

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

6
Supermarkets
2
Celbridge leads
7
Convenience shops
0
Celbridge leads
3
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Celbridge leads
3
Banks
0
Celbridge leads
1
Post offices
1
15
Hairdressers
1
Celbridge leads
2
Dentists
0
Celbridge leads
3
Vets
0
Celbridge leads
4
Filling stations
1
Celbridge leads
1
EV charging
2
Sallins leads
3
Library & community centre
1
Celbridge leads
419
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
784
Celbridge 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.

28m · ~55 rush
Dublinlower is better
35m · ~70 rush
Celbridge leads
110m · ~125 rush
Waterfordlower is better
90m · ~105 rush
Sallins leads
131m · ~150 rush
Limericklower is better
111m · ~130 rush
Sallins leads
131m · ~155 rush
Galwaylower is better
142m · ~165 rush
Celbridge leads
171m · ~195 rush
Corklower is better
150m · ~170 rush
Sallins leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
3.7
Affluence (Pobal HP)
5.3
Sallins leads
Celbridge · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+2CelbridgeAbove average
+4CelbridgeAffluent
+5DonaghcumperAffluent
+6DonaghcumperAffluent
Sallins · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+2BodenstownAbove average
+5BodenstownAffluent
+6Naas RuralAffluent
+8Naas RuralAffluent
48.2%
Third-level educated
51.3%
Sallins leads
48.4%
Professional class
48.7%
Sallins leads
7.5%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.6%
Celbridge leads
78.4%
Owner-occupier
70.7%
Celbridge leads
15.6%
Private rental
21.3%
4.5%
Social housing (LA)
7.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · W23 / W91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Celbridge → W23, Sallins → W91); safety & crime are the Kildare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

68/100
Quality of Life
66/100
Celbridge leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (W23 / 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.

CelbridgeSallinsOverall (avg)
Safety68636663
Affordability5966
Infrastructure6664
Family8181
Education7356
Environment5873
Economic7762
020406080100020406080100
#28
National ranklower is better
#35
Celbridge leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#2
Celbridge 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.

Celbridge Above average+3.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Celbridge +2 (least affluent) → Donaghcumper +6 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Sallins Affluent+5.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Bodenstown +2 (least affluent) → Naas Rural +8 (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 87 CSO Small Areas.

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