Town comparison · Clane vs Kilcullen

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Clane or Kilcullen?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 53 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Clane, Co. Kildare · W91 · 6,209 people | Kilcullen, Co. Kildare · R56 · 3,815 people

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

Clane leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportaccess to its nearest city
Kilcullen leads on
affordability
241514

Clane aheadlevel or not comparableKilcullen ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
ClaneKilcullen
iClane sits in W91, Kilcullen in R56. 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.

Clane
Kilcullen

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.

6,209
Population
3,815

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€411k
Median sale pricelower is better
€383k
Kilcullen leads
€324k – €459k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€350k – €446k
420
Sales (24m)
184
+0.1%
Price momentum (YoY)
-4.8%
51.4%
New-build share
39.1%

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.

3 prim · 2 sec
Schools
1 prim · 1 sec
Clane leads
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
Kilcullen · 2 schools (largest first)
Cross And Passion College Secondary
841 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
St Brigids N S Primary
634 pupils · Catholic
8
Creches
4
Clane leads
5
GP practices
N/A
4
Pharmacies
2
Clane leads
1
Hospitals
0
Clane leads
19
Bus stops
14
Clane leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
15
Gyms & leisure
4
Clane leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
7
Kilcullen leads
28
Sports pitches
24
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.

9
Restaurants
3
Clane leads
4
Cafés
2
Clane leads
4
Pubs & bars
5
Kilcullen leads
6
Takeaways
6
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Kilcullen leads
270
Residents per venuelower is better
224
Kilcullen leads
#39 of 131 small towns
Most vibrant (national)lower is better
#65 of 131 small towns
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.

4
Supermarkets
1
Clane leads
2
Convenience shops
3
Kilcullen leads
3
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Clane leads
2
Banks
2
2
Post offices
1
Clane leads
16
Hairdressers
4
Clane leads
3
Dentists
0
Clane leads
1
Vets
0
Clane leads
2
Filling stations
2
2
EV charging
0
Clane leads
9
Library & community centre
2
Clane leads
135
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
238
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.

38m · ~75 rush
Dublinlower is better
44m · ~80 rush
Clane leads
96m · ~110 rush
Waterfordlower is better
79m · ~95 rush
Kilcullen leads
118m · ~135 rush
Limericklower is better
109m · ~125 rush
Kilcullen leads
133m · ~155 rush
Galwaylower is better
147m · ~170 rush
Clane leads
157m · ~180 rush
Corklower is better
148m · ~170 rush
Kilcullen leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
3.5
Affluence (Pobal HP)
0.7
Clane leads
Clane · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+3ClaneAbove average
+4ClaneAffluent
Kilcullen · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-1KilcullenBelow average
+1KilcullenAbove average
+2CarnalwayAbove average
+4CarnalwayAffluent
47.5%
Third-level educated
40.8%
Clane leads
46.0%
Professional class
42.6%
Clane leads
8.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.9%
Kilcullen leads
72.0%
Owner-occupier
75.3%
Kilcullen leads
20.9%
Private rental
16.2%
6.7%
Social housing (LA)
5.1%

Liveability & safety

AREA · W91 / R56

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (ClaneW91, KilcullenR56); safety & crime are the Kildare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

66/100
Quality of Life
69/100
Kilcullen leads

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

ClaneKilcullenOverall (avg)
Safety66636963
Affordability6671
Infrastructure6488
Family8181
Education5637
Environment7382
Economic6258
020406080100020406080100
#35
National ranklower is better
#12
Kilcullen leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#1
Kilcullen 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.

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.
Kilcullen Above average+0.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilcullen -1 (least affluent) → Carnalway +4 (most affluent). It straddles 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 35 CSO Small Areas.

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