Town comparison · Killiney vs Monkstown

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Killiney or Monkstown?

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.

Killiney, Co. Dublin City · A96 · 2,724 people | Monkstown, Co. Dublin City · A94 · 2,388 people

Monkstown is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Killiney’s 2, with 2 level.

Killiney leads on
schools & amenitiesaffordability
Monkstown leads on
affluenceeducation levelspublic transport
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Killiney aheadlevel or not comparableMonkstown ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
KillineyMonkstown
iKilliney sits in A96, Monkstown in A94. 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.
!Killiney & Monkstown 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.

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

Killiney
Monkstown

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.

2,724
Population
2,388

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€509k
Median sale pricelower is better
€723k
Killiney leads
€416k – €815k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€494k – €1200k
525
Sales (24m)
208
+16.4%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
54.9%
New-build share
6.2%

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
2 prim · 1 sec
Killiney leads
Killiney · 4 schools (largest first)
Holy Child Killiney Secondary
395 pupils · 85% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICFee-paying
Our Lady Good Counsel Gns Primary
389 pupils · Catholic
Our Lady Of Good Counsel Boys N S Primary
383 pupils · Catholic
St Johns N S Primary
174 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Monkstown · 3 schools (largest first)
Christian Brothers College Secondary
564 pupils · 90% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICFee-paying
Dun Laoghaire Etns Primary
177 pupils · Multi Denominational
Holy Family School Primary
153 pupils · CatholicDEIS
4
Creches
6
Monkstown leads
1
GP practices
2
Monkstown leads
1
Pharmacies
2
Monkstown leads
0
Hospitals
0
15
Bus stops
27
Monkstown leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
1
1
Gyms & leisure
5
Monkstown leads
2
Parks & playgrounds
7
Monkstown leads
42
Sports pitches
21
Killiney 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
9
Monkstown leads
6
Cafés
6
3
Pubs & bars
2
Killiney leads
2
Takeaways
3
Monkstown leads
0
Nightclubs
1
Monkstown leads
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Monkstown leads
210
Residents per venuelower is better
109
Monkstown 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
2
Monkstown leads
1
Convenience shops
3
Monkstown leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Monkstown leads
2
Banks
1
Killiney leads
2
Post offices
0
Killiney leads
5
Hairdressers
2
Killiney leads
1
Dentists
1
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
1
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
2
Monkstown leads
210
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
184
Monkstown 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.

22m · ~45 rush
Dublinlower is better
17m · ~35 rush
Monkstown leads
121m · ~135 rush
Waterfordlower is better
122m · ~135 rush
Killiney leads
146m · ~165 rush
Limericklower is better
144m · ~160 rush
Monkstown leads
157m · ~180 rush
Galwaylower is better
156m · ~180 rush
Monkstown leads
185m · ~205 rush
Corklower is better
183m · ~205 rush
Monkstown leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
6.8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
8.3
Monkstown leads
Killiney · 9 EDs, poorest → richest
-7BallybrackBelow average
-3BallybrackBelow average
+5Dun Laoghaire-glasthuleAffluent
+5Dun Laoghaire-glasthuleAffluent
+9Killiney NorthAffluent
+9Foxrock-carrickminesAffluent
+10Foxrock-carrickminesAffluent
+10Mansion House BAffluent
+17Mansion House BVery affluent
Monkstown · 12 EDs, poorest → richest
-2Dun Laoghaire-monkstown FarmBelow average
+1Dun Laoghaire-monkstown FarmAbove average
+5Dun Laoghaire-glasthuleAffluent
+5Dun Laoghaire-glasthuleAffluent
+9Dun Laoghaire-salthillAffluent
+9Dun Laoghaire-salthillAffluent
+9Blackrock-carysfortAffluent
+10Blackrock-carysfortAffluent
+10Mansion House BAffluent
+10Blackrock-monkstownAffluent
+11Blackrock-monkstownAffluent
+17Mansion House BVery affluent
64.1%
Third-level educated
68.5%
Monkstown leads
59.9%
Professional class
59.7%
Killiney leads
6.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.4%
Killiney leads
74.3%
Owner-occupier
59.5%
Killiney leads
22.6%
Private rental
33.6%
2.4%
Social housing (LA)
3.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · A96 / A94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (KillineyA96, MonkstownA94); safety & crime are the DMR East Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

66/100
Quality of Life
72/100
Monkstown leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (A96 / A94) 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.

KillineyMonkstownOverall (avg)
Safety66717271
Affordability1010
Infrastructure8888
Family6276
Education7885
Environment8080
Economic7394
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#35
National ranklower is better
#4
Monkstown leads
#10
County ranklower is better
#1
Monkstown leads
71/100
Safety
71/100
41.6
Crime / 1,000
41.6

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.

Killiney Affluent+6.8
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballybrack -6 (least affluent) → Mansion House B +17 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Monkstown Affluent+8.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dun Laoghaire-monkstown Farm -2 (least affluent) → Mansion House B +17 (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 (DMR East), 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 16 CSO Small Areas.

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