Town comparison · Gorey vs Grahormac

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Gorey or Grahormac?

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.

Gorey, Co. Wexford · Y25 · 11,269 people | Grahormac, Co. Wexford · Y35 · 212 people

Gorey is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Grahormac’s 1, with 2 level.

Gorey leads on
education levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
Grahormac leads on
access to its nearest city
291211

Gorey aheadlevel or not comparableGrahormac ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
GoreyGrahormac
iGorey sits in Y25, Grahormac in Y35. 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.

Gorey
Grahormac

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.

11,269
Population
212

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€334k
Median sale pricelower is better
€450k
Gorey leads
€280k – €393k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€450k – €450k
839
Sales (24m)
1
+5.1%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
31.2%
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.

5 prim · 3 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Gorey leads
Gorey · 8 schools (largest first)
Gorey Community School Secondary
1,536 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Creagh College Secondary
1,067 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Gorey Educate Together Secondary School Secondary
260 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Bunscoil Loreto Primary
641 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Naomh Ioseph Primary
514 pupils · Catholic
Gorey Educate Together Ns Primary
373 pupils · Multi Denominational
Gorey Central School Primary
244 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Gaelscoil Mhoshiolog Primary
153 pupils · Multi Denominational
Grahormac · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Mhuire Primary
69 pupils · CatholicDEIS
15
Creches
1
Gorey leads
1
GP practices
N/A
8
Pharmacies
0
Gorey leads
1
Hospitals
0
Gorey leads
19
Bus stops
6
Gorey leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
Gorey leads
14
Gyms & leisure
1
Gorey leads
7
Parks & playgrounds
0
Gorey leads
35
Sports pitches
3
Gorey 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.

20
Restaurants
1
Gorey leads
14
Cafés
1
Gorey leads
15
Pubs & bars
1
Gorey leads
18
Takeaways
1
Gorey leads
0
Nightclubs
0
3
Cinema & theatre
0
Gorey leads
161
Residents per venuelower is better
53
Grahormac 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.

6
Supermarkets
0
Gorey leads
10
Convenience shops
0
Gorey leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Gorey leads
4
Banks
0
Gorey leads
1
Post offices
0
Gorey leads
17
Hairdressers
0
Gorey leads
5
Dentists
0
Gorey leads
0
Vets
0
7
Filling stations
0
Gorey leads
7
EV charging
0
Gorey leads
4
Library & community centre
1
Gorey leads
179
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
212
Gorey 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.

71m · ~85 rush
Waterfordlower is better
58m · ~70 rush
Grahormac leads
73m · ~110 rush
Dublinlower is better
115m · ~150 rush
Gorey leads
168m · ~190 rush
Corklower is better
155m · ~175 rush
Grahormac leads
172m · ~190 rush
Limericklower is better
168m · ~185 rush
Grahormac leads
201m · ~225 rush
Galwaylower is better
230m · ~255 rush
Gorey leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-7.7
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-7
Grahormac leads
Gorey · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
-11Gorey UrbanDisadvantaged
-8Gorey RuralDisadvantaged
-7Gorey UrbanBelow average
-5Gorey RuralBelow average
-2CourtownBelow average
-1CourtownBelow average
Grahormac · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-10KilscoranDisadvantaged
-3KilscoranBelow average
30.1%
Third-level educated
28.1%
Gorey leads
28.7%
Professional class
31.4%
Grahormac leads
15.4%
Unemploymentlower is better
11.1%
Grahormac leads
61.9%
Owner-occupier
83.6%
Grahormac leads
23.7%
Private rental
12.3%
10.1%
Social housing (LA)
5.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · Y25 / Y35

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (GoreyY25, GrahormacY35); safety & crime are the Wexford Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

63/100
Quality of Life
64/100
Grahormac leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (Y25 / Y35) 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.

GoreyGrahormacOverall (avg)
Safety63646464
Affordability8994
Infrastructure5968
Family7670
Education3038
Environment8282
Economic3833
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#62
National ranklower is better
#58
Grahormac leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#1
Grahormac leads
64/100
Safety
64/100
52.9
Crime / 1,000
52.9

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.

Gorey Below average-7.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Gorey Urban -11 (least affluent) → Courtown -1 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Grahormac Below average-7.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilscoran -10 (least affluent) → Kilscoran -3 (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 (Wexford), 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 39 CSO Small Areas.

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