Town comparison · Drumconrath vs Dunboyne

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Drumconrath or Dunboyne?

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.

Drumconrath, Co. Meath · C15 · 423 people | Dunboyne, Co. Meath · A86 · 6,557 people

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

Drumconrath leads on
affordability
Dunboyne leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportaccess to its nearest city
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Drumconrath aheadlevel or not comparableDunboyne ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DrumconrathDunboyne
iDrumconrath sits in C15, Dunboyne in A86. 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.

Drumconrath
Dunboyne

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.

423
Population
6,557

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€190k
Median sale pricelower is better
€482k
Drumconrath leads
€141k – €223k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€414k – €573k
15
Sales (24m)
198
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
33.3%

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.

1 prim · 0 sec
Schools
4 prim · 1 sec
Dunboyne leads
Drumconrath · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Pheadair Agus Phoil Primary
130 pupils · Catholic
Dunboyne · 5 schools (largest first)
St Peter's College Secondary
1,227 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Dunboyne Senior N S Primary
453 pupils · Catholic
Dunboyne Junior N S Primary
419 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Thulach Na Nóg Primary
359 pupils · Inter Denominational
St Peters National School Primary
92 pupils · Church Of Ireland
0
Creches
7
Dunboyne leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
3
Dunboyne leads
0
Hospitals
0
6
Bus stops
10
Dunboyne leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
2
Dunboyne leads
0
Gyms & leisure
4
Dunboyne leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
3
Dunboyne leads
7
Sports pitches
32
Dunboyne 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.

0
Restaurants
6
Dunboyne leads
0
Cafés
3
Dunboyne leads
0
Pubs & bars
5
Dunboyne leads
0
Takeaways
5
Dunboyne leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
N/A
Residents per venue
345

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

0
Supermarkets
3
Dunboyne leads
0
Convenience shops
3
Dunboyne leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Dunboyne leads
0
Banks
1
Dunboyne leads
0
Post offices
1
Dunboyne leads
0
Hairdressers
8
Dunboyne leads
0
Dentists
1
Dunboyne leads
0
Vets
3
Dunboyne leads
0
Filling stations
2
Dunboyne leads
0
EV charging
4
Dunboyne leads
0
Library & community centre
1
Dunboyne leads
N/A
Residents per shop or service
226

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.

64m · ~100 rush
Dublinlower is better
25m · ~50 rush
Dunboyne leads
169m · ~185 rush
Waterfordlower is better
121m · ~135 rush
Dunboyne leads
163m · ~185 rush
Galwaylower is better
139m · ~165 rush
Dunboyne leads
190m · ~210 rush
Limericklower is better
143m · ~160 rush
Dunboyne leads
230m · ~250 rush
Corklower is better
182m · ~205 rush
Dunboyne leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-6.4
Affluence (Pobal HP)
4.5
Dunboyne leads
Drumconrath · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-9DrumcondraDisadvantaged
-4DrumcondraBelow average
Dunboyne · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+4DunboyneAffluent
+5DunboyneAffluent
26.4%
Third-level educated
47.6%
Dunboyne leads
35.0%
Professional class
47.8%
Dunboyne leads
10.4%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.5%
Dunboyne leads
83.1%
Owner-occupier
78.0%
Drumconrath leads
6.3%
Private rental
15.6%
6.4%
Social housing (LA)
4.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · C15 / A86

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DrumconrathC15, DunboyneA86); safety & crime are the Meath Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
73/100
Dunboyne leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (C15 / A86) 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.

DrumconrathDunboyneOverall (avg)
Safety57477347
Affordability8059
Infrastructure2989
Family7983
Education5074
Environment6682
Economic4878
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#93
National ranklower is better
#6
Dunboyne leads
#3
County ranklower is better
#1
Dunboyne leads
47/100
Safety
47/100
76
Crime / 1,000
76

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.

Drumconrath Below average-6.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Drumcondra -9 (least affluent) → Drumcondra -4 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Dunboyne Affluent+4.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dunboyne +4 (least affluent) → Dunboyne +5 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above 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 (Meath), 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 21 CSO Small Areas.

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