Town comparison · Dunmore East vs Ferrybank

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Dunmore East or Ferrybank?

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.

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford · X91 · 1,731 people | Ferrybank, Co. Waterford · X91 · 862 people

Ferrybank is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Dunmore East’s 2, with 2 level.

Dunmore East leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Ferrybank leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
71926

Dunmore East aheadlevel or not comparableFerrybank ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
Dunmore EastFerrybank
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area X91 — on the routing-key area page they would read as one number. At town level they diverge. 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.
!Ferrybank is a city suburb — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Dunmore East
Ferrybank

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.

1,731
Population
862

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€372k
Median sale pricelower is better
€260k
Ferrybank leads
€343k – €458k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€199k – €301k
114
Sales (24m)
138
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
45.6%
New-build share
9.4%

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
3 prim · 1 sec
Ferrybank leads
Dunmore East · 1 schools (largest first)
Réalt Na Mara National School Primary
200 pupils · Catholic
Ferrybank · 4 schools (largest first)
Abbey Community College Secondary
998 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Waterpark N S Primary
237 pupils · Catholic
S N Muire An Port Mor Primary
213 pupils · Catholic
Our Lady Of Good Counsel Gns Primary
198 pupils · Catholic
3
Creches
1
Dunmore East leads
N/A
GP practices
2
1
Pharmacies
4
Ferrybank leads
0
Hospitals
0
14
Bus stops
18
Ferrybank leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Ferrybank leads
4
Gyms & leisure
4
2
Parks & playgrounds
8
Ferrybank leads
12
Sports pitches
11
Dunmore East 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.

2
Restaurants
18
Ferrybank leads
2
Cafés
8
Ferrybank leads
4
Pubs & bars
21
Ferrybank leads
2
Takeaways
10
Ferrybank leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
173
Residents per venuelower is better
15
Ferrybank 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
2
Convenience shops
7
Ferrybank leads
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Ferrybank leads
0
Banks
2
Ferrybank leads
1
Post offices
2
Ferrybank leads
0
Hairdressers
11
Ferrybank leads
0
Dentists
4
Ferrybank leads
0
Vets
1
Ferrybank leads
0
Filling stations
2
Ferrybank leads
1
EV charging
1
1
Library & community centre
4
Ferrybank leads
289
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
24
Ferrybank 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.

21m · ~30 rush
Waterfordlower is better
5m · ~10 rush
Ferrybank leads
121m · ~145 rush
Corklower is better
107m · ~130 rush
Ferrybank leads
139m · ~175 rush
Dublinlower is better
118m · ~155 rush
Ferrybank leads
140m · ~160 rush
Limericklower is better
120m · ~140 rush
Ferrybank leads
210m · ~235 rush
Galwaylower is better
189m · ~215 rush
Ferrybank leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-4
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-10.9
Dunmore East leads
Dunmore East · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-8KilleaBelow average
-4KilleaBelow average
-3RathmoylanBelow average
+1RathmoylanAbove average
Ferrybank · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-15FerrybankDisadvantaged
-7FerrybankBelow average
34.0%
Third-level educated
26.8%
Dunmore East leads
39.7%
Professional class
24.5%
Dunmore East leads
11.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
14.1%
Dunmore East leads
79.3%
Owner-occupier
70.6%
Dunmore East leads
9.2%
Private rental
12.5%
6.1%
Social housing (LA)
11.3%

Liveability & safety

AREA · X91 / X91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Dunmore EastX91, FerrybankX91); safety & crime are the Waterford Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

65/100
Quality of Life
65/100

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

Dunmore EastFerrybankOverall (avg)
Safety65516551
Affordability100100
Infrastructure9494
Family6666
Education3232
Environment8282
Economic3131
020406080100020406080100
#50
National rank
#50
#1
County rank
#1
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.

Dunmore East Below average-4.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Killea -8 (least affluent) → Rathmoylan +1 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Ferrybank Disadvantaged-10.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ferrybank -15 (least affluent) → Ferrybank -7 (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 12 CSO Small Areas.

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The stronger town on the data.

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