Town comparison · Cliffoney vs Strandhill

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Cliffoney or Strandhill?

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.

Cliffoney, Co. Sligo · F91 · 424 people | Strandhill, Co. Sligo · F91 · 1,557 people

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

Cliffoney leads on
affordability
Strandhill leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transport
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Cliffoney aheadlevel or not comparableStrandhill ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CliffoneyStrandhill
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area F91 — 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.

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

Cliffoney
Strandhill

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.

424
Population
1,557

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€240k
Median sale pricelower is better
€350k
Cliffoney leads
€220k – €305k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€281k – €491k
20
Sales (24m)
72
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
15.3%

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
1 prim · 0 sec
Cliffoney · 1 schools (largest first)
Cliffoney N S Primary
83 pupils · Catholic
Strandhill · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Asicus Primary
255 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
3
Strandhill leads
N/A
GP practices
1
0
Pharmacies
1
Strandhill leads
0
Hospitals
0
3
Bus stops
7
Strandhill leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
6
Strandhill leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
1
Strandhill leads
1
Sports pitches
7
Strandhill 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
5
Strandhill leads
0
Cafés
0
2
Pubs & bars
3
Strandhill leads
0
Takeaways
0
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
141
Residents per venuelower is better
195
Cliffoney 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
0
0
Convenience shops
2
Strandhill leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
1
Post offices
1
1
Hairdressers
1
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Strandhill leads
0
EV charging
0
1
Library & community centre
0
Cliffoney leads
141
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
311
Cliffoney 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.

143m · ~165 rush
Galwaylower is better
129m · ~155 rush
Strandhill leads
184m · ~220 rush
Dublinlower is better
172m · ~205 rush
Strandhill leads
189m · ~205 rush
Limericklower is better
175m · ~195 rush
Strandhill leads
260m · ~275 rush
Waterfordlower is better
246m · ~260 rush
Strandhill leads
269m · ~290 rush
Corklower is better
255m · ~275 rush
Strandhill leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-0.4
Affluence (Pobal HP)
4.9
Strandhill leads
Cliffoney · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-3Cliffony NorthBelow average
+2Cliffony NorthAbove average
Strandhill · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+4KnockareeAbove average
+6KnockareeAffluent
40.6%
Third-level educated
55.4%
Strandhill leads
40.2%
Professional class
54.1%
Strandhill leads
8.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.1%
Strandhill leads
78.9%
Owner-occupier
74.9%
Cliffoney leads
12.4%
Private rental
17.0%
4.7%
Social housing (LA)
7.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · F91 / F91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (CliffoneyF91, StrandhillF91); safety & crime are the Sligo/Leitrim Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

71/100
Quality of Life
71/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (F91 / F91) 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.

CliffoneyStrandhillOverall (avg)
Safety71757175
Affordability100100
Infrastructure6969
Family7575
Education5252
Environment8282
Economic4545
020406080100020406080100
#10
National rank
#10
#1
County rank
#1
75/100
Safety
75/100
37.3
Crime / 1,000
37.3

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.

Cliffoney Below average-0.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Cliffony North -3 (least affluent) → Cliffony North +2 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Strandhill Affluent+4.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Knockaree +4 (least affluent) → Knockaree +6 (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 (Sligo/Leitrim), 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 8 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Strandhill

The stronger town on the data.

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