DonabateCo. Fingal vs Kinsealy-DrinanCo. FingalTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iDonabate sits in K36, Kinsealy-Drinan in K67. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
Donabate
Kinsealy-Drinan

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

TOWNS
Donabate
Co. FINGAL · in K36 · pop 9,092 · 29 small areas
Kinsealy-Drinan
Co. FINGAL · in K67 · pop 7,526 · 26 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€432k
€404k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€383k – €521k
€316k – €465k
Sales (24m)
456
138
Price momentum (YoY)
+9.4%
+20.9%
New-build share
6.1%
0.0%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
4 prim · 1 sec
2 prim · 0 sec
Donabate · 5 schools (largest first)
Donabate Community College Secondary
813 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Donabate/portrane Educate Together Ns Primary
419 pupils · Multi Denominational
S N C Naomh Padraig Primary
384 pupils · Catholic
St Patricks Boys National School Primary
371 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Na Mara Primary
105 pupils · Multi Denominational
Kinsealy-Drinan · 2 schools (largest first)
Holywell Educate Together National School Primary
644 pupils · Multi Denominational
Gaelscoil An Duinninigh Primary
385 pupils · Catholic
Creches
14
9
GP practices
2
1
Pharmacies
3
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
15
10
Rail / Luas stops
1
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
0
0
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.
Dublin
26m · ~50 rush
21m · ~40 rush
Waterford
132m · ~145 rush
126m · ~140 rush
Limerick
153m · ~170 rush
148m · ~165 rush
Galway
158m · ~180 rush
153m · ~175 rush
Cork
192m · ~215 rush
187m · ~210 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
5.6
5.1
Donabate · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+5DonabateAffluent
+6DonabateAffluent
Kinsealy-Drinan · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+5KinsaleyAffluent
+5KinsaleyAffluent
Third-level educated
51.2%
50.0%
Professional class
53.6%
44.5%
Unemployment
7.3%
6.8%
Owner-occupier
78.9%
68.0%
Private rental
13.5%
25.8%
Social housing (LA)
4.9%
4.4%
Liveability & safety● AREA · K36 / K67
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DonabateK36, Kinsealy-DrinanK67); safety & crime are the DMR West Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
68/100
64/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (K36 / K67) 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.

DonabateKinsealy-DrinanOverall (avg)
Safety68486448
Affordability2966
Infrastructure7975
Family7167
Education8256
Environment8274
Economic8562
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National rank
#27
#57
County rank
#8
#14
Safety
48/100
48/100
Crime / 1,000
79.6
79.6

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.

Donabate Affluent+5.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Donabate +5 (least affluent) → Donabate +7 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Kinsealy-Drinan Affluent+5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kinsaley +5 (least affluent) → Kinsaley +5 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, 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. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (DMR West) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 55 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DonabateKinsealy-Drinan
The verdict

Donabate and Kinsealy-Drinan are closely matched — each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level. Donabate is ahead on schools & amenities and public transport; Kinsealy-Drinan on affordability and access to its nearest city.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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