Town comparison · Ferrybank vs Passage East

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Ferrybank 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.

Ferrybank, Co. Waterford · X91 · 862 people | Passage East, Co. Waterford · X91 · 634 people

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

Ferrybank leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
Passage East leads on
affluenceeducation levels
29176

Ferrybank aheadlevel or not comparablePassage East ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
FerrybankPassage East
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.

Ferrybank
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.

862
Population
634

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€260k
Median sale pricelower is better
€304k
Ferrybank leads
€199k – €301k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€219k – €352k
138
Sales (24m)
22
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
9.4%
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.

3 prim · 1 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Ferrybank leads
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
Passage East · 1 schools (largest first)
Passage East N S Primary
104 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
2
Passage East leads
2
GP practices
N/A
4
Pharmacies
0
Ferrybank leads
0
Hospitals
0
18
Bus stops
4
Ferrybank leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
Ferrybank leads
4
Gyms & leisure
1
Ferrybank leads
8
Parks & playgrounds
3
Ferrybank leads
11
Sports pitches
4
Ferrybank 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.

18
Restaurants
1
Ferrybank leads
8
Cafés
1
Ferrybank leads
21
Pubs & bars
1
Ferrybank leads
10
Takeaways
0
Ferrybank leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
15
Residents per venuelower is better
211
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
7
Convenience shops
1
Ferrybank leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Ferrybank leads
2
Banks
0
Ferrybank leads
2
Post offices
0
Ferrybank leads
11
Hairdressers
0
Ferrybank leads
4
Dentists
0
Ferrybank leads
1
Vets
0
Ferrybank leads
2
Filling stations
0
Ferrybank leads
1
EV charging
0
Ferrybank leads
4
Library & community centre
0
Ferrybank leads
24
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
634
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.

5m · ~10 rush
Waterfordlower is better
17m · ~25 rush
Ferrybank leads
107m · ~130 rush
Corklower is better
120m · ~140 rush
Ferrybank leads
118m · ~155 rush
Dublinlower is better
134m · ~170 rush
Ferrybank leads
120m · ~140 rush
Limericklower is better
136m · ~155 rush
Ferrybank leads
189m · ~215 rush
Galwaylower is better
205m · ~230 rush
Ferrybank leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-10.9
Affluence (Pobal HP)
1.8
Passage East leads
Ferrybank · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-15FerrybankDisadvantaged
-7FerrybankBelow average
Passage East · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
+2FaithleggAbove average
26.8%
Third-level educated
45.2%
Passage East leads
24.5%
Professional class
47.0%
Passage East leads
14.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.0%
Passage East leads
70.6%
Owner-occupier
84.1%
Passage East leads
12.5%
Private rental
8.7%
11.3%
Social housing (LA)
4.8%

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 (FerrybankX91, Passage EastX91); 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.

FerrybankPassage EastOverall (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.

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.
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 6 CSO Small Areas.

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