Town comparison · Kildare vs Kilteel

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Kildare or Kilteel?

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.

Kildare, Co. Kildare · R51 · 9,057 people | Kilteel, Co. Kildare · W91 · 262 people

Kildare and Kilteel are closely matched. Each leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions, with 1 level.

Kildare leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordability
Kilteel leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaccess to its nearest city
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Kildare aheadlevel or not comparableKilteel ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
KildareKilteel
iKildare sits in R51, Kilteel in W91. 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.

Kildare
Kilteel

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.

9,057
Population
262

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€400k
Median sale pricelower is better
€643k
Kildare leads
€326k – €480k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€601k – €735k
2,383
Sales (24m)
4
+3.0%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
18.0%
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.

3 prim · 1 sec
Schools
0 prim · 0 sec
Kildare leads
Kildare · 4 schools (largest first)
Kildare Town Community School Secondary
1,021 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Brigid's Kildare Town Primary School Primary
1,012 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Kildare Town Educate Together Ns Primary
420 pupils · Multi Denominational
Gaelscoil Mhic Aodha Primary
215 pupils · Multi Denominational
Kilteel · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
7
Creches
0
Kildare leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
5
Pharmacies
0
Kildare leads
0
Hospitals
0
13
Bus stops
0
Kildare leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
Kildare leads
5
Gyms & leisure
0
Kildare leads
3
Parks & playgrounds
0
Kildare leads
15
Sports pitches
10
Kildare 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.

10
Restaurants
0
Kildare leads
8
Cafés
0
Kildare leads
10
Pubs & bars
1
Kildare leads
6
Takeaways
0
Kildare leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
266
Residents per venuelower is better
262
Kilteel 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
0
Kildare leads
4
Convenience shops
0
Kildare leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Kildare leads
2
Banks
0
Kildare leads
1
Post offices
0
Kildare leads
6
Hairdressers
0
Kildare leads
0
Dentists
0
1
Vets
0
Kildare leads
3
Filling stations
0
Kildare leads
5
EV charging
0
Kildare leads
1
Library & community centre
1
323
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
262
Kilteel 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.

49m · ~85 rush
Dublinlower is better
32m · ~65 rush
Kilteel leads
94m · ~110 rush
Waterfordlower is better
101m · ~115 rush
Kildare leads
99m · ~115 rush
Limericklower is better
122m · ~140 rush
Kildare leads
137m · ~160 rush
Galwaylower is better
153m · ~175 rush
Kildare leads
138m · ~160 rush
Corklower is better
162m · ~185 rush
Kildare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-5.9
Affluence (Pobal HP)
6.4
Kilteel leads
Kildare · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-7KildareBelow average
-4KildareBelow average
Kilteel · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+6KilteelAffluent
+7KilteelAffluent
30.0%
Third-level educated
44.8%
Kilteel leads
29.5%
Professional class
52.7%
Kilteel leads
13.1%
Unemploymentlower is better
3.4%
Kilteel leads
64.1%
Owner-occupier
92.5%
Kilteel leads
19.0%
Private rental
5.3%
12.7%
Social housing (LA)
0.0%

Liveability & safety

AREA · R51 / W91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (KildareR51, KilteelW91); safety & crime are the Kildare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
66/100
Kilteel leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (R51 / W91) 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.

KildareKilteelOverall (avg)
Safety57636663
Affordability7666
Infrastructure4464
Family7481
Education3656
Environment6573
Economic3962
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#93
National ranklower is better
#35
Kilteel leads
#5
County ranklower is better
#2
Kilteel leads
63/100
Safety
63/100
55.1
Crime / 1,000
55.1

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.

Kildare Below average-5.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kildare -7 (least affluent) → Kildare -4 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Kilteel Affluent+6.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilteel +6 (least affluent) → Kilteel +7 (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 (Kildare), 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 30 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Kildare

The towns are level, so these are from the first.

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