Town comparison · Foxrock vs Killiney

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Foxrock or Killiney?

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.

Foxrock, Co. Dublin City · D18 · 2,142 people | Killiney, Co. Dublin City · A96 · 2,724 people

Foxrock and Killiney are closely matched. Each leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions, with 1 level.

Foxrock leads on
affluenceeducation levelspublic transport
Killiney leads on
schools & amenitiessafetyaffordability
201715

Foxrock aheadlevel or not comparableKilliney ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
FoxrockKilliney
iFoxrock sits in D18, Killiney in A96. 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.
!Foxrock & Killiney are city suburbs — 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.

Foxrock
Killiney

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.

2,142
Population
2,724

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€940k
Median sale pricelower is better
€509k
Killiney leads
€743k – €1325k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€416k – €815k
295
Sales (24m)
523
+10.5%
Price momentum (YoY)
+16.9%
22.4%
New-build share
55.1%

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
3 prim · 1 sec
Killiney leads
Foxrock · 2 schools (largest first)
Loreto College Foxrock Secondary
637 pupils · 90% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICFee-paying
St Brigids Boys N S Primary
409 pupils · Catholic
Killiney · 4 schools (largest first)
Holy Child Killiney Secondary
395 pupils · 85% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICFee-paying
Our Lady Good Counsel Gns Primary
389 pupils · Catholic
Our Lady Of Good Counsel Boys N S Primary
383 pupils · Catholic
St Johns N S Primary
174 pupils · CatholicDEIS
2
Creches
4
Killiney leads
1
GP practices
1
1
Pharmacies
1
0
Hospitals
0
24
Bus stops
15
Foxrock leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
1
Killiney leads
3
Gyms & leisure
1
Foxrock leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
2
Killiney leads
22
Sports pitches
42
Killiney 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.

3
Restaurants
2
Foxrock leads
5
Cafés
6
Killiney leads
1
Pubs & bars
3
Killiney leads
4
Takeaways
2
Foxrock leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
165
Residents per venuelower is better
210
Foxrock 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.

1
Supermarkets
1
1
Convenience shops
1
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Foxrock leads
1
Banks
2
Killiney leads
0
Post offices
2
Killiney leads
3
Hairdressers
5
Killiney leads
0
Dentists
1
Killiney leads
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
1
0
EV charging
0
1
Library & community centre
0
Foxrock leads
238
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
210
Killiney 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.

20m · ~40 rush
Dublinlower is better
22m · ~45 rush
Foxrock leads
120m · ~135 rush
Waterfordlower is better
121m · ~135 rush
Foxrock leads
141m · ~160 rush
Limericklower is better
146m · ~165 rush
Foxrock leads
153m · ~175 rush
Galwaylower is better
157m · ~180 rush
Foxrock leads
181m · ~205 rush
Corklower is better
185m · ~205 rush
Foxrock leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
9.7
Affluence (Pobal HP)
6.8
Foxrock leads
Foxrock · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
+9Foxrock-carrickminesAffluent
+10Foxrock-torquayAffluent
+10Foxrock-carrickminesAffluent
+10Foxrock-beechparkAffluent
+10Foxrock-torquayAffluent
+10Foxrock-beechparkAffluent
Killiney · 9 EDs, poorest → richest
-7BallybrackBelow average
-3BallybrackBelow average
+5Dun Laoghaire-glasthuleAffluent
+5Dun Laoghaire-glasthuleAffluent
+9Killiney NorthAffluent
+9Foxrock-carrickminesAffluent
+10Foxrock-carrickminesAffluent
+10Mansion House BAffluent
+17Mansion House BVery affluent
66.7%
Third-level educated
64.1%
Foxrock leads
68.9%
Professional class
59.9%
Foxrock leads
4.6%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.3%
Foxrock leads
87.2%
Owner-occupier
74.3%
Foxrock leads
11.6%
Private rental
22.6%
0.5%
Social housing (LA)
2.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · D18 / A96

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (FoxrockD18, KillineyA96); safety & crime are the DMR South Garda division.

71/100
Quality of Life
66/100
Foxrock leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (D18 / A96) 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.

FoxrockKillineyOverall (avg)
Safety71606671
Affordability3410
Infrastructure10088
Family6362
Education7078
Environment8280
Economic8673
020406080100020406080100
#10
National ranklower is better
#35
Foxrock leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#10
Foxrock leads
60/100
Safety
71/100
Killiney leads
60.2
Crime / 1,000lower is better
41.6
Killiney leads

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.

Foxrock Affluent+9.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Foxrock-carrickmines +10 (least affluent) → Foxrock-beechpark +10 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Killiney Affluent+6.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballybrack -6 (least affluent) → Mansion House B +17 (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 (DMR South), 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 15 CSO Small Areas.

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