Town comparison · Drogheda vs Dromiskin

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Drogheda or Dromiskin?

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.

Drogheda, Co. Louth · A92 · 41,452 people | Dromiskin, Co. Louth · A91 · 1,292 people

Drogheda is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Dromiskin’s 2, with 1 level.

Drogheda leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordabilityaccess to its nearest city
Dromiskin leads on
affluenceeducation levels
32137

Drogheda aheadlevel or not comparableDromiskin ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DroghedaDromiskin
iDrogheda sits in A92, Dromiskin in A91. 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.

Drogheda
Dromiskin

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.

41,452
Population
1,292

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€335k
Median sale pricelower is better
€352k
Drogheda leads
€280k – €370k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€299k – €435k
1,594
Sales (24m)
33
+72.6%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
51.6%
New-build share
42.4%

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.

13 prim · 8 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Drogheda leads
Drogheda · 21 schools (largest first)
St Oliver's Community College Secondary
1,517 pupils · 50% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
St. Joseph's C.b.s. Secondary
1,057 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Ballymakenny College Secondary
1,003 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Our Lady's College Secondary
973 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
St Mary's Diocesan School Secondary
915 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Sacred Heart Secondary School Secondary
706 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Drogheda Grammar School Secondary
553 pupils · 90% to 3rd-level · QUAKERFee-paying
Laytown & Drogheda Educate Together Secondary School Secondary
496 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Marys Parish Primary School Primary
972 pupils · Catholic
St Brigid's And St Patrick's National School Primary
573 pupils · CatholicDEIS
St Pauls Senior Ns Primary
471 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Rathmullan N S Primary
412 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Le Cheile Educate Together Ns Primary
390 pupils · Multi Denominational
Aston Village Educate Together National School Primary
373 pupils · Multi Denominational
Scoil Oilibhéir Naofa Primary
366 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Presentation Convent Primary
350 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Scoil Na Mbraithre Sn Primary
345 pupils · CatholicDEIS
S N Ard Mhuire C Primary
313 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Naomh Seosamh Primary
295 pupils · Catholic
S N Aonghusa Primary
162 pupils · Catholic
S N Naomh Peadar Primary
92 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Dromiskin · 1 schools (largest first)
Dromiskin Mixed N S Primary
229 pupils · Catholic
33
Creches
2
Drogheda leads
4
GP practices
N/A
9
Pharmacies
0
Drogheda leads
3
Hospitals
0
Drogheda leads
100
Bus stops
4
Drogheda leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
Drogheda leads
20
Gyms & leisure
0
Drogheda leads
6
Parks & playgrounds
3
Drogheda leads
64
Sports pitches
6
Drogheda 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.

20
Restaurants
0
Drogheda leads
12
Cafés
2
Drogheda leads
30
Pubs & bars
0
Drogheda leads
16
Takeaways
2
Drogheda leads
1
Nightclubs
0
Drogheda leads
2
Cinema & theatre
0
Drogheda leads
512
Residents per venuelower is better
323
Dromiskin 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.

12
Supermarkets
1
Drogheda leads
19
Convenience shops
1
Drogheda leads
4
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Drogheda leads
3
Banks
0
Drogheda leads
2
Post offices
0
Drogheda leads
12
Hairdressers
0
Drogheda leads
2
Dentists
0
Drogheda leads
2
Vets
0
Drogheda leads
10
Filling stations
5
Drogheda leads
7
EV charging
6
Drogheda leads
3
Library & community centre
0
Drogheda leads
545
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
99
Dromiskin 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.

42m · ~75 rush
Dublinlower is better
58m · ~95 rush
Drogheda leads
148m · ~160 rush
Waterfordlower is better
164m · ~180 rush
Drogheda leads
169m · ~185 rush
Limericklower is better
185m · ~205 rush
Drogheda leads
174m · ~200 rush
Galwaylower is better
182m · ~205 rush
Drogheda leads
208m · ~230 rush
Corklower is better
225m · ~245 rush
Drogheda leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-3.3
Dromiskin leads
Drogheda · 9 EDs, poorest → richest
-13West GateDisadvantaged
-12West GateDisadvantaged
-12Fair GateDisadvantaged
-9Fair GateDisadvantaged
-4St. Lawrence GateBelow average
-4St. Mary'sBelow average
-4St. Mary's (part)Below average
-3St. Mary'sBelow average
-2St. Peter'sBelow average
Dromiskin · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-5DromiskinBelow average
-1DromiskinBelow average
29.9%
Third-level educated
36.7%
Dromiskin leads
29.7%
Professional class
38.7%
Dromiskin leads
14.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
11.4%
Dromiskin leads
67.1%
Owner-occupier
85.3%
Dromiskin leads
19.6%
Private rental
6.8%
9.9%
Social housing (LA)
5.1%

Liveability & safety

AREA · A92 / A91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DroghedaA92, DromiskinA91); safety & crime are the Louth Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

67/100
Quality of Life
67/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (A92 / A91) 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.

DroghedaDromiskinOverall (avg)
Safety67546754
Affordability8894
Infrastructure9393
Family7373
Education4838
Environment7482
Economic3632
020406080100020406080100
#31
National rank
#31
#1
County rank
#1
54/100
Safety
54/100
68
Crime / 1,000
68

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.

Drogheda Below average-8.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: West Gate -13 (least affluent) → St. Peter's -2 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Dromiskin Below average-3.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dromiskin -5 (least affluent) → Dromiskin -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 (Louth), 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 149 CSO Small Areas.

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