Town comparison · Douglas vs Killeagh

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Douglas or Killeagh?

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.

Douglas, Co. Cork · T12 · 29,878 people | Killeagh, Co. Cork · P36 · 1,275 people

Douglas is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 5 of the 7 dimensions to Killeagh’s 1, with 1 level.

Douglas leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportaccess to its nearest city
Killeagh leads on
affordability
28168

Douglas aheadlevel or not comparableKilleagh ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DouglasKilleagh
iDouglas sits in T12, Killeagh in P36. 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.
!Douglas 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.

Douglas
Killeagh

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.

29,878
Population
1,275

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€414k
Median sale pricelower is better
€295k
Killeagh leads
€325k – €499k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€240k – €398k
926
Sales (24m)
51
+3.8%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
39.5%
New-build share
37.3%

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.

6 prim · 2 sec
Schools
2 prim · 0 sec
Douglas leads
Douglas · 8 schools (largest first)
St Francis Capuchin College Secondary
777 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Douglas Community School Secondary
562 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Douglas Rochestown Educate Together National School Primary
513 pupils · Multi Denominational
Scoil Phadraig Naofa Primary
465 pupils · Catholic
Scoil An Athair Tadhg O Murchu Primary
438 pupils · Catholic
St Columbas N.s Primary
370 pupils · Catholic
Douglas B N S Primary
364 pupils · Catholic
St Lukes N S Douglas Primary
207 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Killeagh · 2 schools (largest first)
S N Fearghail Naofa Primary
202 pupils · Catholic
Kyle N S Primary
49 pupils · Multi Denominational
23
Creches
3
Douglas leads
8
GP practices
N/A
7
Pharmacies
1
Douglas leads
0
Hospitals
0
70
Bus stops
5
Douglas leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
31
Gyms & leisure
1
Douglas leads
4
Parks & playgrounds
1
Douglas leads
56
Sports pitches
4
Douglas 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.

24
Restaurants
0
Douglas leads
20
Cafés
0
Douglas leads
10
Pubs & bars
4
Douglas leads
16
Takeaways
1
Douglas leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
427
Residents per venuelower is better
255
Killeagh 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.

6
Supermarkets
0
Douglas leads
11
Convenience shops
4
Douglas leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
5
Banks
0
Douglas leads
1
Post offices
1
16
Hairdressers
0
Douglas leads
7
Dentists
0
Douglas leads
4
Vets
0
Douglas leads
6
Filling stations
2
Douglas leads
4
EV charging
0
Douglas leads
4
Library & community centre
1
Douglas leads
453
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
128
Killeagh 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.

9m · ~15 rush
Corklower is better
33m · ~55 rush
Douglas leads
109m · ~125 rush
Waterfordlower is better
75m · ~90 rush
Killeagh leads
96m · ~115 rush
Limericklower is better
116m · ~135 rush
Douglas leads
166m · ~190 rush
Galwaylower is better
187m · ~210 rush
Douglas leads
179m · ~215 rush
Dublinlower is better
181m · ~215 rush
Douglas leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
7.6
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-3.3
Douglas leads
Douglas · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+6Douglas/lehenaghAffluent
+8Carrigaline/monkstown Rural/douglasAffluent
+8DouglasAffluent
+10DouglasAffluent
Killeagh · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-5KilleaghBelow average
-1KilleaghBelow average
58.6%
Third-level educated
28.1%
Douglas leads
53.2%
Professional class
41.6%
Douglas leads
5.2%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.2%
Douglas leads
70.5%
Owner-occupier
83.3%
Killeagh leads
22.5%
Private rental
8.1%
4.7%
Social housing (LA)
3.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · T12 / P36

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DouglasT12, KilleaghP36); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

66/100
Quality of Life
67/100
Killeagh leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (T12 / P36) 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.

DouglasKilleaghOverall (avg)
Safety66616761
Affordability7299
Infrastructure8640
Family6477
Education5556
Environment6288
Economic6445
020406080100020406080100
#35
National ranklower is better
#31
Killeagh leads
#9
County ranklower is better
#8
Killeagh leads
61/100
Safety
61/100
58.8
Crime / 1,000
58.8

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.

Douglas Affluent+7.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Douglas/lehenagh +7 (least affluent) → Douglas +10 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Killeagh Below average-3.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Killeagh -5 (least affluent) → Killeagh -1 (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 (Cork City), 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 115 CSO Small Areas.

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