Town comparison · Gort vs Oranmore

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Gort or Oranmore?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 53 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Gort, Co. Galway · H91 · 2,502 people | Oranmore, Co. Galway · H91 · 4,732 people

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

Gort leads on
affordability
Oranmore leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiesaccess to its nearest city
152018

Gort aheadlevel or not comparableOranmore ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
GortOranmore
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area H91 — 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.

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

Gort
Oranmore

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.

2,502
Population
4,732

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€313k
Median sale pricelower is better
€420k
Gort leads
€235k – €401k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€361k – €489k
172
Sales (24m)
346
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
+27.1%
7.0%
New-build share
45.1%

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.

4 prim · 1 sec
Schools
2 prim · 1 sec
Gort leads
Gort · 5 schools (largest first)
Gort Community School Secondary
1,018 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Gort National School Primary
214 pupils · CatholicDEIS
S N Cill Tartain Primary
116 pupils · Catholic
S N Cill Fheicin Primary
66 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Na Bhfili Primary
36 pupils · Multi Denominational
Oranmore · 3 schools (largest first)
Calasanctius College Secondary
925 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Scoil Íosa Primary
743 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil De Hide Primary
409 pupils · Catholic
10
Creches
16
Oranmore leads
4
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
2
Oranmore leads
1
Hospitals
0
Gort leads
2
Bus stops
3
Oranmore leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
Gort leads
3
Gyms & leisure
9
Oranmore leads
2
Parks & playgrounds
1
Gort leads
13
Sports pitches
10
Gort 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.

2
Restaurants
10
Oranmore leads
2
Cafés
7
Oranmore leads
6
Pubs & bars
6
4
Takeaways
4
0
Nightclubs
1
Oranmore leads
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Oranmore leads
179
Residents per venuelower is better
163
Oranmore leads
#76 of 131 small towns
Most vibrant (national)lower is better
#30 of 131 small towns
Oranmore 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.

3
Supermarkets
4
Oranmore leads
6
Convenience shops
4
Gort leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
2
Banks
2
1
Post offices
1
3
Hairdressers
1
Gort leads
0
Dentists
0
2
Vets
1
Gort leads
2
Filling stations
2
1
EV charging
0
Gort leads
2
Library & community centre
1
Gort leads
114
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
296
Gort 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.

35m · ~60 rush
Galwaylower is better
16m · ~30 rush
Oranmore leads
47m · ~65 rush
Limericklower is better
67m · ~85 rush
Gort leads
127m · ~150 rush
Corklower is better
146m · ~170 rush
Gort leads
151m · ~185 rush
Dublinlower is better
141m · ~175 rush
Oranmore leads
161m · ~175 rush
Waterfordlower is better
181m · ~195 rush
Gort leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-7.2
Affluence (Pobal HP)
6.6
Oranmore leads
Gort · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-8GortDisadvantaged
-6GortBelow average
Oranmore · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+5OranmoreAffluent
+7OranmoreAffluent
+7ClarinbridgeAffluent
+11ClarinbridgeAffluent
30.4%
Third-level educated
57.9%
Oranmore leads
25.8%
Professional class
53.1%
Oranmore leads
14.6%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.6%
Oranmore leads
54.7%
Owner-occupier
69.4%
Oranmore leads
36.4%
Private rental
28.1%
8.2%
Social housing (LA)
2.3%

Liveability & safety

AREA · H91 / H91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (GortH91, OranmoreH91); safety & crime are the Galway Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

69/100
Quality of Life
69/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (H91 / H91) 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.

GortOranmoreOverall (avg)
Safety69616961
Affordability7575
Infrastructure8181
Family7575
Education5050
Environment8888
Economic5555
020406080100020406080100
#26
National rank
#26
#1
County rank
#1
61/100
Safety
61/100
60.1
Crime / 1,000
60.1

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 Below average-7.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Gort -8 (least affluent) → Gort -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Oranmore Affluent+6.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Oranmore +5 (least affluent) → Clarinbridge +11 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is 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 (Galway), 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 29 CSO Small Areas.

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