GlanmireCo. Cork City vs TowerCo. Cork CityTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iGlanmire sits in T45, Tower in T23. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Glanmire 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.
Glanmire
Tower

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

TOWNS
Glanmire
Co. CORK CITY · in T45 · pop 2,473 · 9 small areas
Tower
Co. CORK CITY · in T23 · pop 3,428 · 12 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€376k
€373k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€319k – €449k
€298k – €430k
Sales (24m)
306
47
Price momentum (YoY)
+130.3%
+2.1%
New-build share
2.7%
0.0%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
4 prim · 1 sec
2 prim · 0 sec
Glanmire · 5 schools (largest first)
Colaiste An Phiarsaigh Secondary
576 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Riverstown N S Primary
662 pupils · Catholic
Upper Glanmire N S Primary
291 pupils · Catholic
Lower Glanmire N S Primary
142 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Na Nog Primary
31 pupils · Catholic
Tower · 2 schools (largest first)
Cloghroe Mixed N S Primary
519 pupils · Catholic
Strawberry Hill National School Primary
329 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Creches
3
3
GP practices
0
1
Pharmacies
0
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
9
16
Rail / Luas stops
1
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
0
0
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.
Cork
11m · ~20 rush
16m · ~25 rush
Limerick
92m · ~110 rush
85m · ~105 rush
Waterford
103m · ~115 rush
121m · ~135 rush
Galway
162m · ~185 rush
155m · ~180 rush
Dublin
172m · ~205 rush
190m · ~225 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
0.7
3.2
Glanmire · 9 EDs, poorest → richest
-17Fair Hill CVery disadvantaged
-16Fair Hill CVery disadvantaged
-10RiverstownDisadvantaged
+1RathcooneyAbove average
+3RiverstownAbove average
+5Tivoli AAffluent
+5CaherlagAffluent
+5CaherlagAffluent
+6Tivoli AAffluent
Tower · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+3BlarneyAbove average
+4MatehyAbove average
Third-level educated
42.1%
45.5%
Professional class
42.1%
46.0%
Unemployment
8.1%
5.6%
Owner-occupier
76.1%
79.4%
Private rental
16.6%
14.6%
Social housing (LA)
6.8%
4.6%
Liveability & safety● AREA · T45 / T23
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (GlanmireT45, TowerT23); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
71/100
60/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (T45 / T23) 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.

GlanmireTowerOverall (avg)
Safety71616061
Affordability7492
Infrastructure5993
Family8655
Education6428
Environment8469
Economic6623
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#10
#81
County rank
#4
#15
Safety
61/100
61/100
Crime / 1,000
58.8
58.8

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.

Glanmire Above average+0.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Fair Hill C -17 (least affluent) → Tivoli A +6 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Tower Above average+3.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Blarney +3 (least affluent) → Matehy +4 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, 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. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (Cork City) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 21 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
GlanmireTower
The verdict

Tower is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Glanmire’s 0, with 4 level: affluence, education levels and public transport. Glanmire doesn’t lead on any.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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