Town comparison · Gort An Choirce vs Lifford

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Gort An Choirce or Lifford?

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.

Gort An Choirce, Co. Donegal · V95 · 180 people | Lifford, Co. Donegal · F93 · 1,613 people

Gort An Choirce is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions to Lifford’s 1, with 4 level.

Gort An Choirce leads on
affluenceeducation levels
Lifford leads on
safety
131920

Gort An Choirce aheadlevel or not comparableLifford ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
Gort An ChoirceLifford
iGort An Choirce sits in V95, Lifford in F93. 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.

Gort An Choirce
Lifford

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.

180
Population
1,613

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€165k
Median sale pricelower is better
€160k
Lifford leads
€148k – €200k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€112k – €240k
4
Sales (24m)
137
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
0.0%

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
2 prim · 0 sec
Lifford leads
Gort An Choirce · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Gort An Choirce Primary
35 pupils · CatholicDEISGaelscoil
Lifford · 2 schools (largest first)
St Patricks N S Primary
160 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Scoil Náisiúnta Muire Gan Smál Primary
120 pupils · CatholicDEIS
1
Creches
3
Lifford leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
1
Lifford leads
0
Hospitals
1
Lifford leads
2
Bus stops
4
Lifford leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
1
Lifford leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
5
Lifford 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.

1
Restaurants
1
0
Cafés
1
Lifford leads
1
Pubs & bars
0
Gort An Choirce leads
1
Takeaways
0
Gort An Choirce leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Lifford leads
60
Residents per venuelower is better
538
Gort An Choirce 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
0
Gort An Choirce leads
0
Convenience shops
5
Lifford leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
0
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
2
Filling stations
3
Lifford leads
0
EV charging
1
Lifford leads
1
Library & community centre
1
45
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
161
Gort An Choirce 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.

232m · ~265 rush
Dublinlower is better
174m · ~210 rush
Lifford leads
248m · ~270 rush
Galwaylower is better
217m · ~240 rush
Lifford leads
295m · ~315 rush
Limericklower is better
263m · ~280 rush
Lifford leads
338m · ~350 rush
Waterfordlower is better
279m · ~295 rush
Lifford leads
374m · ~395 rush
Corklower is better
329m · ~350 rush
Lifford leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-14.6
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-18.2
Gort An Choirce leads
Gort An Choirce · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-18GortahorkVery disadvantaged
-11GortahorkDisadvantaged
Lifford · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-19Clonleigh SouthVery disadvantaged
-17Clonleigh SouthVery disadvantaged
28.4%
Third-level educated
20.2%
Gort An Choirce leads
25.1%
Professional class
21.8%
Gort An Choirce leads
22.5%
Unemploymentlower is better
25.4%
Gort An Choirce leads
82.8%
Owner-occupier
63.7%
Gort An Choirce leads
6.1%
Private rental
17.7%
6.6%
Social housing (LA)
14.3%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V95 / F93

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Gort An ChoirceV95, LiffordF93); safety & crime are the Clare Garda division.

70/100
Quality of Life
54/100
Gort An Choirce leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V95 / F93) 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.

Gort An ChoirceLiffordOverall (avg)
Safety70685471
Affordability91100
Infrastructure6522
Family8180
Education5217
Environment8069
Economic5219
020406080100020406080100
#18
National ranklower is better
#101
Gort An Choirce leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#3
Gort An Choirce leads
68/100
Safety
71/100
Lifford leads
48.8
Crime / 1,000lower is better
44.8
Lifford 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.

Gort An Choirce Disadvantaged-14.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Gortahork -18 (least affluent) → Gortahork -11 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Lifford Very disadvantaged-18.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Clonleigh South -19 (least affluent) → Clonleigh South -17 (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 (Clare), 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 8 CSO Small Areas.

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