Town comparison · Delgany vs Kilcoole

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Delgany or Kilcoole?

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.

Delgany, Co. Wicklow · A63 · 7,707 people | Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow · A63 · 4,569 people

Kilcoole is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Delgany’s 2, with 2 level.

Delgany leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Kilcoole leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
62324

Delgany aheadlevel or not comparableKilcoole ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DelganyKilcoole
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area A63 — 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.

Delgany
Kilcoole

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.

7,707
Population
4,569

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€621k
Median sale pricelower is better
€471k
Kilcoole leads
€514k – €736k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€379k – €622k
344
Sales (24m)
90
+6.1%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
47.7%
New-build share
27.8%

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 · 1 sec
Kilcoole leads
Delgany · 1 schools (largest first)
Gaelscoil Na Gcloch Liath Primary
256 pupils · Inter Denominational
Kilcoole · 2 schools (largest first)
Colaiste Chraobh Abhann Secondary
774 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Kilcoole Primary School Primary
575 pupils · Catholic
2
Creches
6
Kilcoole leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
2
Kilcoole leads
0
Hospitals
0
11
Bus stops
20
Kilcoole leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Kilcoole leads
2
Gyms & leisure
11
Kilcoole leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
4
Kilcoole leads
14
Sports pitches
12
Delgany 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
Kilcoole leads
2
Cafés
3
Kilcoole leads
2
Pubs & bars
4
Kilcoole leads
0
Takeaways
5
Kilcoole leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
1,927
Residents per venuelower is better
351
Kilcoole leads
#118 of 131 small towns
Most vibrant (national)lower is better
#80 of 131 small towns
Kilcoole 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
3
Kilcoole leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Kilcoole leads
0
Banks
1
Kilcoole leads
0
Post offices
1
Kilcoole leads
0
Hairdressers
3
Kilcoole leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
1
Kilcoole leads
0
Filling stations
1
Kilcoole leads
0
EV charging
1
Kilcoole leads
0
Library & community centre
2
Kilcoole leads
N/A
Residents per shop or service
326

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.

40m · ~75 rush
Dublin
40m · ~75 rush
113m · ~125 rush
Waterfordlower is better
109m · ~125 rush
Kilcoole leads
156m · ~175 rush
Limerick
156m · ~175 rush
168m · ~190 rush
Galway
168m · ~190 rush
195m · ~215 rush
Cork
195m · ~215 rush

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
6.8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
4.8
Delgany leads
Delgany · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+5DelganyAffluent
+8DelganyAffluent
Kilcoole · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+5KilcooleAffluent
+5KilcooleAffluent
57.6%
Third-level educated
51.4%
Delgany leads
60.4%
Professional class
52.2%
Delgany leads
7.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.1%
Delgany leads
81.9%
Owner-occupier
74.2%
Delgany leads
10.3%
Private rental
18.7%
8.0%
Social housing (LA)
7.2%

Liveability & safety

AREA · A63 / A63

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DelganyA63, KilcooleA63); safety & crime are the Wicklow 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 (A63 / A63) 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.

DelganyKilcooleOverall (avg)
Safety71707170
Affordability4141
Infrastructure6969
Family8080
Education7676
Environment8080
Economic8181
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#10
National rank
#10
#1
County rank
#1
70/100
Safety
70/100
43.8
Crime / 1,000
43.8

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.

Delgany Affluent+6.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Delgany +5 (least affluent) → Delgany +8 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Kilcoole Affluent+4.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilcoole +5 (least affluent) → Kilcoole +5 (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 (Wicklow), 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 38 CSO Small Areas.

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