Town comparison · Kilkee vs Kilmaley

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Kilkee or Kilmaley?

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.

Kilkee, Co. Clare · V15 · 976 people | Kilmaley, Co. Clare · V95 · 296 people

Kilmaley is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Kilkee’s 1, with 3 level.

Kilkee leads on
affordability
Kilmaley leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaccess to its nearest city
162214

Kilkee aheadlevel or not comparableKilmaley ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
KilkeeKilmaley
iKilkee sits in V15, Kilmaley in V95. 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.

Kilkee
Kilmaley

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.

976
Population
296

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€240k
Median sale pricelower is better
€330k
Kilkee leads
€169k – €322k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€150k – €350k
107
Sales (24m)
17
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
3.7%
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.

1 prim · 1 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Kilkee leads
Kilkee · 2 schools (largest first)
St Joseph's Community College Secondary
171 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Realt Na Mara Primary
129 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Kilmaley · 1 schools (largest first)
Kilmaley N S Primary
98 pupils · Catholic
2
Creches
1
Kilkee leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
0
Kilkee leads
0
Hospitals
0
1
Bus stops
0
Kilkee leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
1
Kilmaley leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
1
8
Sports pitches
2
Kilkee 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.

6
Restaurants
0
Kilkee leads
1
Cafés
0
Kilkee leads
8
Pubs & bars
0
Kilkee leads
3
Takeaways
0
Kilkee leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
54
Residents per venue
N/A

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
Kilkee leads
1
Convenience shops
0
Kilkee leads
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Kilkee leads
0
Banks
0
1
Post offices
0
Kilkee leads
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
0
1
EV charging
0
Kilkee leads
1
Library & community centre
0
Kilkee leads
163
Residents per shop or service
N/A

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.

82m · ~100 rush
Limericklower is better
42m · ~60 rush
Kilmaley leads
106m · ~130 rush
Galwaylower is better
66m · ~90 rush
Kilmaley leads
162m · ~185 rush
Corklower is better
122m · ~145 rush
Kilmaley leads
196m · ~210 rush
Waterfordlower is better
156m · ~170 rush
Kilmaley leads
216m · ~250 rush
Dublinlower is better
176m · ~210 rush
Kilmaley leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-14.3
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-1.1
Kilmaley leads
Kilkee · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-18KilkeeVery disadvantaged
-11KilkeeDisadvantaged
Kilmaley · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-3KillannivBelow average
+1KillannivAbove average
25.9%
Third-level educated
34.1%
Kilmaley leads
24.4%
Professional class
41.6%
Kilmaley leads
22.9%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.6%
Kilmaley leads
60.6%
Owner-occupier
81.2%
Kilmaley leads
15.1%
Private rental
10.3%
17.2%
Social housing (LA)
1.5%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V15 / V95

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (KilkeeV15, KilmaleyV95); safety & crime are the Clare Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

53/100
Quality of Life
70/100
Kilmaley leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V15 / V95) 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.

KilkeeKilmaleyOverall (avg)
Safety53687068
Affordability10091
Infrastructure2265
Family8181
Education1852
Environment6080
Economic2552
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#103
National ranklower is better
#18
Kilmaley leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#1
Kilmaley leads
68/100
Safety
68/100
48.8
Crime / 1,000
48.8

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.

Kilkee Disadvantaged-14.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilkee -18 (least affluent) → Kilkee -11 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Kilmaley Below average-1.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Killanniv -3 (least affluent) → Killanniv +1 (most affluent). It straddles 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 5 CSO Small Areas.

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The stronger town on the data.

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