Town comparison · Cloughjordan vs Roscrea

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Cloughjordan or Roscrea?

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.

Cloughjordan, Co. North Tipperary · E53 · 337 people | Roscrea, Co. North Tipperary · E53 · 5,139 people

Cloughjordan and Roscrea are closely matched. Each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level.

Cloughjordan leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Roscrea leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transport
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Cloughjordan aheadlevel or not comparableRoscrea ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CloughjordanRoscrea
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area E53 — 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.

Cloughjordan
Roscrea

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.

337
Population
5,139

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€250k
Median sale pricelower is better
€225k
Roscrea leads
€225k – €345k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€155k – €277k
25
Sales (24m)
201
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
18.9%

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 · 0 sec
Schools
4 prim · 1 sec
Roscrea leads
Cloughjordan · 2 schools (largest first)
Cloughjordan N S Primary
130 pupils · Catholic
Cloughjordan No 1 N S Primary
76 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Roscrea · 5 schools (largest first)
Colaiste Phobáil Ros Cré Secondary
595 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
S N Iosef Naofa Primary
299 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Sacred Heart Primary School Primary
173 pupils · CatholicDEIS
St Johns Primary
163 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Roscrea N S No 2 Primary
28 pupils · Church Of Ireland
2
Creches
6
Roscrea leads
1
GP practices
1
1
Pharmacies
5
Roscrea leads
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
6
Roscrea leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
1
0
Gyms & leisure
8
Roscrea leads
3
Parks & playgrounds
5
Roscrea leads
6
Sports pitches
18
Roscrea 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
Roscrea leads
2
Cafés
3
Roscrea leads
3
Pubs & bars
15
Roscrea leads
1
Takeaways
13
Roscrea leads
0
Nightclubs
1
Roscrea leads
1
Cinema & theatre
0
Cloughjordan leads
42
Residents per venuelower is better
139
Cloughjordan 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
5
Roscrea leads
2
Convenience shops
6
Roscrea leads
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
4
Roscrea leads
0
Banks
4
Roscrea leads
1
Post offices
1
1
Hairdressers
10
Roscrea leads
0
Dentists
4
Roscrea leads
0
Vets
4
Roscrea leads
1
Filling stations
5
Roscrea leads
1
EV charging
3
Roscrea leads
4
Library & community centre
3
Cloughjordan leads
31
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
105
Cloughjordan 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.

51m · ~70 rush
Limericklower is better
53m · ~70 rush
Cloughjordan leads
84m · ~110 rush
Galwaylower is better
98m · ~120 rush
Cloughjordan leads
111m · ~125 rush
Waterfordlower is better
95m · ~110 rush
Roscrea leads
111m · ~145 rush
Dublinlower is better
98m · ~135 rush
Roscrea leads
126m · ~150 rush
Corklower is better
115m · ~135 rush
Roscrea leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-2.9
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-12.1
Cloughjordan leads
Cloughjordan · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-6CloghjordanBelow average
+0CloghjordanAbove average
Roscrea · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-13RoscreaDisadvantaged
-11RoscreaDisadvantaged
37.8%
Third-level educated
21.5%
Cloughjordan leads
40.0%
Professional class
22.8%
Cloughjordan leads
10.7%
Unemploymentlower is better
16.3%
Cloughjordan leads
71.7%
Owner-occupier
60.0%
Cloughjordan leads
13.7%
Private rental
20.6%
10.5%
Social housing (LA)
15.6%

Liveability & safety

AREA · E53 / E53

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (CloughjordanE53, RoscreaE53); safety & crime are the Tipperary Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

66/100
Quality of Life
66/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (E53 / E53) 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.

CloughjordanRoscreaOverall (avg)
Safety66566656
Affordability100100
Infrastructure8787
Family8080
Education3232
Environment7474
Economic3535
020406080100020406080100
#35
National rank
#35
#2
County rank
#2
56/100
Safety
56/100
64.9
Crime / 1,000
64.9

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.

Cloughjordan Below average-2.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Cloghjordan -6 (least affluent) → Cloghjordan +0 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Roscrea Disadvantaged-12.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Roscrea -13 (least affluent) → Roscrea -11 (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 (Tipperary), 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 22 CSO Small Areas.

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