Town comparison · Clarina vs Dooradoyle

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Clarina or Dooradoyle?

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.

Clarina, Co. Limerick · V94 · 559 people | Dooradoyle, Co. Limerick City · V94 · 1,490 people

Clarina is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions to Dooradoyle’s 1, with 4 level.

Clarina leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Dooradoyle leads on
affordability
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Clarina aheadlevel or not comparableDooradoyle ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
ClarinaDooradoyle
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area V94 — on the routing-key area page they would read as one number. At town level they diverge. 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.
!Dooradoyle 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.

Clarina
Dooradoyle

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.

559
Population
1,490

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€397k
Median sale pricelower is better
€356k
Dooradoyle leads
€324k – €534k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€301k – €414k
28
Sales (24m)
175
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
+0.0%
N/A
New-build share
0.0%

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.

1 prim · 0 sec
Schools
0 prim · 0 sec
Clarina leads
Clarina · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Naomh Iosef Primary
290 pupils · Catholic
Dooradoyle · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
2
Creches
2
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
1
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
4
Dooradoyle leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
4
Sports pitches
0
Clarina 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.

0
Restaurants
1
Dooradoyle leads
0
Cafés
1
Dooradoyle leads
0
Pubs & bars
1
Dooradoyle leads
0
Takeaways
1
Dooradoyle leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
N/A
Residents per venue
373

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
1
Dooradoyle leads
2
Convenience shops
0
Clarina leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Dooradoyle leads
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
0
1
Hairdressers
2
Dooradoyle leads
0
Dentists
1
Dooradoyle leads
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
0
Clarina leads
0
EV charging
0
1
Library & community centre
0
Clarina leads
112
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
298
Clarina 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.

12m · ~20 rush
Limericklower is better
4m · ~5 rush
Dooradoyle leads
80m · ~105 rush
Galwaylower is better
79m · ~105 rush
Dooradoyle leads
84m · ~105 rush
Cork
84m · ~105 rush
124m · ~140 rush
Waterfordlower is better
120m · ~135 rush
Dooradoyle leads
145m · ~180 rush
Dublinlower is better
140m · ~175 rush
Dooradoyle leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
3
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-4.3
Clarina leads
Clarina · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
0ClarinaBelow average
+6ClarinaAffluent
Dooradoyle · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
+2BallycumminAbove average
+5BallycumminAffluent
40.9%
Third-level educated
39.3%
Clarina leads
46.6%
Professional class
34.9%
Clarina leads
5.9%
Unemploymentlower is better
12.8%
Clarina leads
85.7%
Owner-occupier
65.0%
Clarina leads
9.2%
Private rental
25.4%
0.7%
Social housing (LA)
6.8%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V94 / V94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Clarina → V94, Dooradoyle → V94); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

62/100
Quality of Life
62/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V94 / V94) 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.

ClarinaDooradoyleOverall (avg)
Safety62426242
Affordability8989
Infrastructure8383
Family7272
Education4646
Environment6262
Economic4040
020406080100020406080100
#66
National rank
#66
#1
County rank
#1
42/100
Safety
42/100
88.4
Crime / 1,000
88.4

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.

Clarina Above average+3.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Clarina 0 (least affluent) → Clarina +6 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Dooradoyle Below average-4.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbey D -20 (least affluent) → Ballycummin +5 (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 (Limerick), 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 5 CSO Small Areas.

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The stronger town on the data.

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