Town comparison · Dungarvan vs Passage East

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Dungarvan or Passage East?

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 | Passage East, Co. Waterford · X91 · 634 people

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

Dungarvan leads on
schools & amenities
Passage East leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaffordabilityaccess to its nearest city
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Dungarvan aheadlevel or not comparablePassage East ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DungarvanPassage East
iDungarvan sits in X35, Passage East in X91. 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
Passage East

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
634

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€314k
Median sale pricelower is better
€304k
Passage East leads
€235k – €430k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€219k – €352k
301
Sales (24m)
22
+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
Passage East · 1 schools (largest first)
Passage East N S Primary
104 pupils · Catholic
9
Creches
2
Dungarvan leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
5
Pharmacies
0
Dungarvan leads
1
Hospitals
0
Dungarvan leads
6
Bus stops
4
Dungarvan leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
12
Gyms & leisure
1
Dungarvan leads
5
Parks & playgrounds
3
Dungarvan leads
24
Sports pitches
4
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
1
Dungarvan leads
11
Pubs & bars
1
Dungarvan leads
7
Takeaways
0
Dungarvan leads
1
Nightclubs
0
Dungarvan leads
1
Cinema & theatre
0
Dungarvan leads
216
Residents per venuelower is better
211
Passage East 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
634
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.

44m · ~60 rush
Waterfordlower is better
17m · ~25 rush
Passage East leads
65m · ~85 rush
Corklower is better
120m · ~140 rush
Dungarvan leads
117m · ~135 rush
Limericklower is better
136m · ~155 rush
Dungarvan leads
150m · ~185 rush
Dublinlower is better
134m · ~170 rush
Passage East leads
188m · ~210 rush
Galwaylower is better
205m · ~230 rush
Dungarvan leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
1.8
Passage East 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
Passage East · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+2FaithleggAbove average
31.5%
Third-level educated
45.2%
Passage East leads
29.6%
Professional class
47.0%
Passage East leads
15.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.0%
Passage East leads
59.3%
Owner-occupier
84.1%
Passage East leads
19.1%
Private rental
8.7%
19.1%
Social housing (LA)
4.8%

Liveability & safety

AREA · X35 / X91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DungarvanX35, Passage EastX91); safety & crime are the Waterford Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
65/100
Passage East leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (X35 / X91) 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.

DungarvanPassage EastOverall (avg)
Safety57516551
Affordability89100
Infrastructure4094
Family7366
Education3032
Environment7482
Economic4231
020406080100020406080100
#93
National ranklower is better
#50
Passage East leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#1
Passage East 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.
Passage East Above average+1.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Faithlegg) — 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 (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 33 CSO Small Areas.

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