Town comparison · Dooradoyle vs Oola

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Dooradoyle or Oola?

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.

Dooradoyle, Co. Limerick City · V94 · 1,490 people | Oola, Co. Limerick · E34 · 315 people

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

Dooradoyle leads on
education levelsaccess to its nearest city
Oola leads on
safetyaffordability
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Dooradoyle aheadlevel or not comparableOola ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DooradoyleOola
iDooradoyle sits in V94, Oola in E34. 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.
!Dooradoyle is a city suburb — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.

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

Dooradoyle
Oola

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.

1,490
Population
315

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€355k
Median sale pricelower is better
€323k
Oola leads
€300k – €413k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€241k – €381k
173
Sales (24m)
10
+0.2%
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.

0 prim · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Oola leads
Dooradoyle · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Oola · 1 schools (largest first)
Oola National School Primary
67 pupils · Catholic
2
Creches
1
Dooradoyle leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
1
0
Hospitals
0
4
Bus stops
2
Dooradoyle leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
1
Oola 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
0
Dooradoyle leads
1
Cafés
0
Dooradoyle leads
1
Pubs & bars
2
Oola leads
1
Takeaways
1
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
373
Residents per venuelower is better
105
Oola 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
Dooradoyle leads
0
Convenience shops
2
Oola leads
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Dooradoyle leads
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
1
Oola leads
2
Hairdressers
1
Dooradoyle leads
1
Dentists
0
Dooradoyle leads
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Oola leads
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
0
298
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
63
Oola 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.

4m · ~5 rush
Limericklower is better
29m · ~45 rush
Dooradoyle leads
79m · ~105 rush
Galwaylower is better
100m · ~125 rush
Dooradoyle leads
84m · ~105 rush
Corklower is better
87m · ~110 rush
Dooradoyle leads
120m · ~135 rush
Waterfordlower is better
92m · ~105 rush
Oola leads
140m · ~175 rush
Dublinlower is better
146m · ~180 rush
Dooradoyle leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-4.3
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-4.3
Dooradoyle · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
+2BallycumminAbove average
+5BallycumminAffluent
Oola · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-6OolaBelow average
-3OolaBelow average
39.3%
Third-level educated
31.4%
Dooradoyle leads
34.9%
Professional class
40.0%
Oola leads
12.8%
Unemploymentlower is better
10.1%
Oola leads
65.0%
Owner-occupier
81.7%
Oola leads
25.4%
Private rental
11.1%
6.8%
Social housing (LA)
4.1%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V94 / E34

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Dooradoyle → V94, Oola → E34); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division.

62/100
Quality of Life
66/100
Oola leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V94 / E34) 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.

DooradoyleOolaOverall (avg)
Safety62426656
Affordability89100
Infrastructure8389
Family7275
Education4626
Environment6282
Economic4032
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#66
National ranklower is better
#35
Oola leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#2
Dooradoyle leads
42/100
Safety
56/100
Oola leads
88.4
Crime / 1,000lower is better
64.9
Oola leads

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.

Dooradoyle Below average-4.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbey D -20 (least affluent) → Ballycummin +5 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Oola Below average-4.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Oola -6 (least affluent) → Oola -3 (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 (Limerick), 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 5 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Dooradoyle

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