Town comparison · Dungarvan vs Kill

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Dungarvan or Kill?

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.

Dungarvan, Co. Waterford · X35 · 8,427 people | Kill, Co. Waterford · X42 · 246 people

Dungarvan is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Kill’s 1, with 3 level.

Dungarvan leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenities
Kill leads on
access to its nearest city
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Dungarvan aheadlevel or not comparableKill ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DungarvanKill
iDungarvan sits in X35, Kill in X42. 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.

Dungarvan
Kill

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.

8,427
Population
246

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€314k
Median sale pricelower is better
€315k
Dungarvan leads
€235k – €430k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€215k – €340k
301
Sales (24m)
25
+7.7%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
2.7%
New-build share
N/A

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.

4 prim · 4 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Dungarvan leads
Dungarvan · 8 schools (largest first)
St Augustines College Secondary
1,065 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Scoil Na Mbraithre Secondary
342 pupils · 65% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Ardscoil Na Ndéise Secondary
268 pupils · 60% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Dungarvan College-coláiste Dhún Garbhán Secondary
254 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
S N Dun Na Mainistreach Primary
482 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Gearbhain Primary
320 pupils · Catholic
St Marys Ns Primary
253 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Scoil Naomh Seosamh Primary
150 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Kill · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Na Cille Primary
109 pupils · Catholic
9
Creches
0
Dungarvan leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
5
Pharmacies
0
Dungarvan leads
1
Hospitals
0
Dungarvan leads
6
Bus stops
2
Dungarvan leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
12
Gyms & leisure
2
Dungarvan leads
5
Parks & playgrounds
0
Dungarvan leads
24
Sports pitches
2
Dungarvan 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.

10
Restaurants
1
Dungarvan leads
9
Cafés
0
Dungarvan leads
11
Pubs & bars
2
Dungarvan leads
7
Takeaways
1
Dungarvan leads
1
Nightclubs
0
Dungarvan leads
1
Cinema & theatre
0
Dungarvan leads
216
Residents per venuelower is better
62
Kill 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.

5
Supermarkets
0
Dungarvan leads
6
Convenience shops
1
Dungarvan leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Dungarvan leads
2
Banks
0
Dungarvan leads
1
Post offices
0
Dungarvan leads
4
Hairdressers
0
Dungarvan leads
0
Dentists
0
2
Vets
0
Dungarvan leads
4
Filling stations
0
Dungarvan leads
6
EV charging
0
Dungarvan leads
3
Library & community centre
0
Dungarvan leads
241
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
246
Dungarvan 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.

150m · ~185 rush
Dublinlower is better
30m · ~60 rush
Kill leads
44m · ~60 rush
Waterfordlower is better
93m · ~105 rush
Dungarvan leads
65m · ~85 rush
Corklower is better
153m · ~175 rush
Dungarvan leads
117m · ~135 rush
Limericklower is better
114m · ~130 rush
Kill leads
188m · ~210 rush
Galwaylower is better
147m · ~170 rush
Kill leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-10.3
Dungarvan leads
Dungarvan · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
-15Dungarvan No. 1 UrbanDisadvantaged
-12Dungarvan No. 1 UrbanDisadvantaged
-3Dungarvan RuralBelow average
-2Dungarvan No. 2 UrbanBelow average
-1Dungarvan RuralBelow average
+3Dungarvan No. 2 UrbanAbove average
Kill · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-11KilbarrymeadenDisadvantaged
-9KilbarrymeadenDisadvantaged
31.5%
Third-level educated
23.2%
Dungarvan leads
29.6%
Professional class
25.4%
Dungarvan leads
15.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
16.7%
Dungarvan leads
59.3%
Owner-occupier
66.5%
Kill leads
19.1%
Private rental
7.9%
19.1%
Social housing (LA)
18.8%

Liveability & safety

AREA · X35 / X42

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DungarvanX35, KillX42); safety & crime are the Waterford Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
72/100
Kill leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (X35 / X42) 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.

DungarvanKillOverall (avg)
Safety57517251
Affordability8999
Infrastructure4089
Family7381
Education3054
Environment7482
Economic4247
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#93
National ranklower is better
#8
Kill leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#1
Kill leads
51/100
Safety
51/100
75.8
Crime / 1,000
75.8

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.

Dungarvan Below average-8.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dungarvan No. 1 Urban -15 (least affluent) → Dungarvan No. 2 Urban +3 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Kill Disadvantaged-10.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilbarrymeaden -11 (least affluent) → Kilbarrymeaden -9 (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 (Waterford), 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 32 CSO Small Areas.

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