Town comparison · Dunleer vs Knockbridge

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Dunleer or Knockbridge?

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.

Dunleer, Co. Louth · A92 · 1,997 people | Knockbridge, Co. Louth · A91 · 759 people

Dunleer and Knockbridge are closely matched. Each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level.

Dunleer leads on
schools & amenitiesaccess to its nearest city
Knockbridge leads on
education levelsaffordability
83410

Dunleer aheadlevel or not comparableKnockbridge ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DunleerKnockbridge
iDunleer sits in A92, Knockbridge 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.

Dunleer
Knockbridge

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.

1,997
Population
759

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€319k
Median sale pricelower is better
€275k
Knockbridge leads
€229k – €387k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€241k – €355k
72
Sales (24m)
19
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
6.9%
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.

1 prim · 1 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Dunleer leads
Dunleer · 2 schools (largest first)
Scoil Ui Mhuiri Secondary
656 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Bhride Mixed N S Primary
208 pupils · Catholic
Knockbridge · 1 schools (largest first)
Knockbridge Mixed N S Primary
306 pupils · Catholic
3
Creches
3
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
0
0
Hospitals
0
3
Bus stops
4
Knockbridge leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
2
Parks & playgrounds
1
Dunleer leads
12
Sports pitches
2
Dunleer 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
0
0
Cafés
1
Knockbridge leads
1
Pubs & bars
1
0
Takeaways
0
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
1,997
Residents per venuelower is better
380
Knockbridge 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
1
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
0
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
1
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
0
999
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
380
Knockbridge 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.

48m · ~85 rush
Dublinlower is better
64m · ~100 rush
Dunleer leads
154m · ~170 rush
Waterfordlower is better
170m · ~185 rush
Dunleer leads
175m · ~195 rush
Limericklower is better
191m · ~210 rush
Dunleer leads
176m · ~200 rush
Galwaylower is better
184m · ~210 rush
Dunleer leads
215m · ~235 rush
Corklower is better
230m · ~250 rush
Dunleer leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-5.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-3.9
Knockbridge leads
Dunleer · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-5DunleerBelow average
-5DunleerBelow average
Knockbridge · 3 EDs, poorest → richest
-11Castletown (south)Disadvantaged
-2CastleringBelow average
+1CastleringAbove average
30.1%
Third-level educated
33.5%
Knockbridge leads
32.9%
Professional class
39.5%
Knockbridge leads
11.4%
Unemploymentlower is better
9.9%
Knockbridge leads
74.1%
Owner-occupier
77.0%
Knockbridge leads
11.5%
Private rental
8.4%
10.0%
Social housing (LA)
6.7%

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 (DunleerA92, KnockbridgeA91); 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.

DunleerKnockbridgeOverall (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.

Dunleer Below average-5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dunleer -5 (least affluent) → Dunleer -5 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Knockbridge Below average-3.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Castletown (south) -11 (least affluent) → Castlering +2 (most affluent). It straddles 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 10 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Dunleer

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