Town comparison · Clones vs Emyvale

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Clones or Emyvale?

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.

Clones, Co. Monaghan · H23 · 2,115 people | Emyvale, Co. Monaghan · H18 · 638 people

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

Clones leads on
schools & amenities
Emyvale leads on
affluenceeducation levels
191914

Clones aheadlevel or not comparableEmyvale ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
ClonesEmyvale
iClones sits in H23, Emyvale in H18. 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.

Clones
Emyvale

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.

2,115
Population
638

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€164k
Median sale pricelower is better
€210k
Clones leads
€113k – €231k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€160k – €280k
66
Sales (24m)
27
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
0.0%
New-build share
N/A

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.

2 prim · 1 sec
Schools
0 prim · 0 sec
Clones leads
Clones · 3 schools (largest first)
Largy College Secondary
500 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
St Tiarnach's Primary School Primary
235 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Gaelscoil Éois Primary
128 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Emyvale · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
3
Creches
1
Clones leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
1
0
Hospitals
0
6
Bus stops
2
Clones leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
3
Gyms & leisure
1
Clones leads
5
Parks & playgrounds
2
Clones leads
15
Sports pitches
3
Clones 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
1
3
Cafés
0
Clones leads
8
Pubs & bars
4
Clones leads
6
Takeaways
2
Clones leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
118
Residents per venuelower is better
91
Emyvale 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.

1
Supermarkets
0
Clones leads
2
Convenience shops
3
Emyvale leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Clones leads
0
Banks
1
Emyvale leads
1
Post offices
1
1
Hairdressers
2
Emyvale leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
3
Filling stations
2
Clones leads
1
EV charging
0
Clones leads
4
Library & community centre
0
Clones leads
141
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
64
Emyvale 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.

117m · ~150 rush
Dublinlower is better
110m · ~145 rush
Emyvale leads
157m · ~180 rush
Galwaylower is better
187m · ~210 rush
Clones leads
194m · ~210 rush
Limericklower is better
225m · ~245 rush
Clones leads
212m · ~225 rush
Waterfordlower is better
216m · ~230 rush
Clones leads
257m · ~280 rush
Corklower is better
276m · ~300 rush
Clones leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-12.8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-5.9
Emyvale leads
Clones · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-19Clones UrbanVery disadvantaged
-14Clones UrbanDisadvantaged
-11Clones RuralDisadvantaged
-6Clones RuralBelow average
Emyvale · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-7EmyvaleBelow average
-5EmyvaleBelow average
22.2%
Third-level educated
26.5%
Emyvale leads
23.1%
Professional class
28.4%
Emyvale leads
16.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
10.1%
Emyvale leads
59.0%
Owner-occupier
66.9%
Emyvale leads
21.9%
Private rental
15.4%
13.7%
Social housing (LA)
15.0%

Liveability & safety

AREA · H23 / H18

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (ClonesH23, EmyvaleH18); safety & crime are the Cavan/Monaghan Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

67/100
Quality of Life
72/100
Emyvale leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (H23 / H18) 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.

ClonesEmyvaleOverall (avg)
Safety67747274
Affordability100100
Infrastructure8788
Family7979
Education1444
Environment8282
Economic3038
020406080100020406080100
#15
National ranklower is better
#4
Emyvale leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#1
Emyvale leads
74/100
Safety
74/100
40
Crime / 1,000
40

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.

Clones Disadvantaged-12.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Clones Urban -19 (least affluent) → Clones Rural -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Emyvale Below average-5.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Emyvale -7 (least affluent) → Emyvale -5 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below 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 (Cavan/Monaghan), 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 11 CSO Small Areas.

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