GrangeCo. Cork City vs RochestownCo. 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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iGrange sits in P31, Rochestown in T12. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Grange & Rochestown 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.
Grange
Rochestown

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

TOWNS
Grange
Co. CORK CITY · in P31 · pop · 4 small areas
Rochestown
Co. CORK CITY · in T12 · pop · 5 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€395k
€398k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€339k – €441k
€335k – €510k
Sales (24m)
164
234
Price momentum (YoY)
+7.5%
+1.6%
New-build share
24.9%
16.6%
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
0 prim · 1 sec
0 prim · 1 sec
Grange · 1 schools (largest first)
Christ King Girls' Secondary School Secondary
703 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Rochestown · 1 schools (largest first)
Christ King Girls' Secondary School Secondary
703 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Creches
0
0
GP practices
1
0
Pharmacies
1
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
3
10
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
1
1
Parks & playgrounds
3
3
Sports pitches
5
8
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
10m · ~15 rush
Limerick
86m · ~105 rush
95m · ~115 rush
Waterford
115m · ~130 rush
104m · ~120 rush
Galway
156m · ~180 rush
165m · ~190 rush
Dublin
183m · ~220 rush
175m · ~210 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
4.5
6.5
Grange · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
+1Tramore CAbove average
+3RathcormackAbove average
+5BallincolligAffluent
+9BallygromanAffluent
Rochestown · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+1Tramore CAbove average
+8Carrigaline/monkstown Rural/douglasAffluent
Third-level educated
48.2%
57.4%
Professional class
48.1%
52.4%
Unemployment
5.5%
5.7%
Owner-occupier
72.7%
66.9%
Private rental
17.7%
23.3%
Social housing (LA)
7.1%
6.9%
Liveability & safety● AREA · P31 / T12
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (GrangeP31, RochestownT12); safety & crime are the Cork North Garda division.
Quality of Life
72/100
66/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (P31 / T12) 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.

GrangeRochestownOverall (avg)
Safety72566661
Affordability7172
Infrastructure6186
Family8364
Education6955
Environment8462
Economic8264
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#4
#35
County rank
#2
#9
Safety
56/100
61/100
Crime / 1,000
67
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.

Grange Affluent+4.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Tramore C +1 (least affluent) → Ballygroman +9 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Rochestown Affluent+6.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Tramore C +1 (least affluent) → Carrigaline/monkstown Rural/douglas +8 (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 North) — 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 9 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
GrangeRochestown
The verdict

Rochestown is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Grange’s 0, with 3 level: affluence, education levels, public transport and safety. Grange 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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