Town comparison · Dundrum vs Fethard

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Dundrum or Fethard?

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.

Dundrum, Co. South Tipperary · E34 · 221 people | Fethard, Co. South Tipperary · E91 · 2,072 people

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

Dundrum leads on
access to its nearest city
Fethard leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiesaffordability
82222

Dundrum aheadlevel or not comparableFethard ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DundrumFethard
iDundrum sits in E34, Fethard in E91. 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.

Dundrum
Fethard

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.

221
Population
2,072

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€260k
Median sale pricelower is better
€238k
Fethard leads
€176k – €295k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€160k – €315k
30
Sales (24m)
81
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
20.0%
New-build share
6.2%

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
2 prim · 1 sec
Fethard leads
Dundrum · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Fethard · 3 schools (largest first)
Patrician Presentation Secondary
280 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICDEIS
Holy Trinity National School Primary
208 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Killusty N S Primary
20 pupils · Catholic
2
Creches
2
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
2
Fethard leads
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
2
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
1
Gyms & leisure
4
Fethard leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
2
Fethard leads
6
Sports pitches
45
Fethard 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
1
Fethard leads
0
Cafés
3
Fethard leads
2
Pubs & bars
6
Fethard leads
0
Takeaways
0
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Fethard leads
111
Residents per venuelower is better
188
Dundrum 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.

0
Supermarkets
0
1
Convenience shops
2
Fethard leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Fethard leads
1
Banks
1
1
Post offices
1
1
Hairdressers
1
0
Dentists
0
1
Vets
0
Dundrum leads
1
Filling stations
1
0
EV charging
1
Fethard leads
1
Library & community centre
3
Fethard leads
32
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
188
Dundrum 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.

18m · ~35 rush
Dublinlower is better
128m · ~165 rush
Dundrum leads
119m · ~135 rush
Waterfordlower is better
57m · ~70 rush
Fethard leads
140m · ~160 rush
Limericklower is better
78m · ~95 rush
Fethard leads
179m · ~200 rush
Corklower is better
83m · ~105 rush
Fethard leads
152m · ~175 rush
Galwaylower is better
148m · ~170 rush
Fethard leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-13.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-7.9
Fethard leads
Dundrum · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-15KilpatrickDisadvantaged
-11KilpatrickDisadvantaged
Fethard · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-10FethardDisadvantaged
-9FethardDisadvantaged
-9PeppardstownDisadvantaged
-3PeppardstownBelow average
17.4%
Third-level educated
26.1%
Fethard leads
22.3%
Professional class
28.8%
Fethard leads
13.7%
Unemploymentlower is better
12.6%
Fethard leads
92.4%
Owner-occupier
60.4%
Dundrum leads
2.8%
Private rental
11.6%
3.1%
Social housing (LA)
15.9%

Liveability & safety

AREA · E34 / E91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DundrumE34, FethardE91); safety & crime are the Tipperary Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

66/100
Quality of Life
65/100
Dundrum leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (E34 / E91) 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.

DundrumFethardOverall (avg)
Safety66566556
Affordability10099
Infrastructure8988
Family7572
Education2629
Environment8264
Economic3246
020406080100020406080100
#35
National ranklower is better
#50
Dundrum leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#5
Dundrum leads
56/100
Safety
56/100
64.9
Crime / 1,000
64.9

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.

Dundrum Disadvantaged-13.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilpatrick -15 (least affluent) → Kilpatrick -11 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Fethard Below average-7.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Fethard -10 (least affluent) → Peppardstown -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 (Tipperary), 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 9 CSO Small Areas.

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