Town comparison · Dooradoyle vs Raheen

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Dooradoyle or Raheen?

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 | Raheen, Co. Limerick City · V94 · 1,393 people

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

Dooradoyle leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaffordability
Raheen leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transport
62026

Dooradoyle aheadlevel or not comparableRaheen ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DooradoyleRaheen
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area V94 — 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.
!Dooradoyle & Raheen are city suburbs — 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
Raheen

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
1,393

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€351k
Median sale pricelower is better
€390k
Dooradoyle leads
€300k – €409k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€312k – €452k
179
Sales (24m)
92
+1.7%
Price momentum (YoY)
+1.7%
0.0%
New-build share
0.0%

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
4 prim · 0 sec
Raheen leads
Dooradoyle · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Raheen · 4 schools (largest first)
Scoil Phoil Naofa Primary
579 pupils · Catholic
St Johns Convent Primary
220 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Our Lady Of Lourdes N S Primary
165 pupils · CatholicDEIS
St John The Baptist Boys N S Primary
47 pupils · CatholicDEIS
2
Creches
9
Raheen leads
N/A
GP practices
5
1
Pharmacies
4
Raheen leads
0
Hospitals
2
Raheen leads
4
Bus stops
26
Raheen leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
2
Raheen leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
15
Raheen 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
2
Raheen leads
1
Cafés
0
Dooradoyle leads
1
Pubs & bars
9
Raheen leads
1
Takeaways
9
Raheen leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Raheen leads
373
Residents per venuelower is better
66
Raheen 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
2
Raheen leads
0
Convenience shops
3
Raheen leads
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
0
Banks
3
Raheen leads
0
Post offices
1
Raheen leads
2
Hairdressers
5
Raheen leads
1
Dentists
2
Raheen leads
0
Vets
1
Raheen leads
0
Filling stations
3
Raheen leads
0
EV charging
2
Raheen leads
0
Library & community centre
6
Raheen leads
298
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
48
Raheen 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
Limerick
4m · ~5 rush
79m · ~105 rush
Galway
79m · ~105 rush
84m · ~105 rush
Cork
84m · ~105 rush
120m · ~135 rush
Waterfordlower is better
118m · ~130 rush
Raheen leads
140m · ~175 rush
Dublinlower is better
139m · ~175 rush
Raheen leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-4.3
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-10.3
Dooradoyle leads
Dooradoyle · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
+2BallycumminAbove average
+5BallycumminAffluent
Raheen · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-17Ballinacurra BVery disadvantaged
-12Ballinacurra BDisadvantaged
+2BallycumminAbove average
+5BallycumminAffluent
39.3%
Third-level educated
30.1%
Dooradoyle leads
34.9%
Professional class
28.1%
Dooradoyle leads
12.8%
Unemploymentlower is better
16.3%
Dooradoyle leads
65.0%
Owner-occupier
69.2%
Raheen leads
25.4%
Private rental
18.3%
6.8%
Social housing (LA)
9.2%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V94 / V94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DooradoyleV94, RaheenV94); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

62/100
Quality of Life
62/100

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

DooradoyleRaheenOverall (avg)
Safety62426242
Affordability8989
Infrastructure8383
Family7272
Education4646
Environment6262
Economic4040
020406080100020406080100
#66
National rank
#66
#1
County rank
#1
42/100
Safety
42/100
88.4
Crime / 1,000
88.4

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.
Raheen Disadvantaged-10.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbey D -20 (least affluent) → Ballycummin +5 (most affluent). It straddles 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 6 CSO Small Areas.

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