Town comparison · Killiney vs Ringsend

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Killiney or Ringsend?

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 | Ringsend, Co. Dublin City · D04 · 1,819 people

Killiney is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 5 of the 7 dimensions to Ringsend’s 1, with 1 level.

Killiney leads on
affluenceeducation levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportsafety
Ringsend leads on
affordability
181519

Killiney aheadlevel or not comparableRingsend ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
KillineyRingsend
iKilliney sits in A96, Ringsend in D04. 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 & Ringsend 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
Ringsend

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
1,819

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€509k
Median sale pricelower is better
€469k
Ringsend leads
€416k – €815k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€394k – €593k
523
Sales (24m)
168
+16.9%
Price momentum (YoY)
+45.2%
55.1%
New-build share
1.2%

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
Ringsend · 3 schools (largest first)
Ringsend College Secondary
210 pupils · 35% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
St Patricks Girls Ns Primary
148 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Naomh Padraig Boys Primary
126 pupils · CatholicDEIS
4
Creches
3
Killiney leads
1
GP practices
3
Ringsend leads
1
Pharmacies
2
Ringsend leads
0
Hospitals
0
15
Bus stops
9
Killiney leads
1
Rail / Luas stops
1
1
Gyms & leisure
3
Ringsend leads
2
Parks & playgrounds
9
Ringsend leads
42
Sports pitches
10
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
3
Ringsend leads
6
Cafés
9
Ringsend leads
3
Pubs & bars
5
Ringsend leads
2
Takeaways
2
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
210
Residents per venuelower is better
96
Ringsend 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
Ringsend leads
1
Convenience shops
5
Ringsend leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Ringsend leads
2
Banks
0
Killiney leads
2
Post offices
1
Killiney leads
5
Hairdressers
4
Killiney leads
1
Dentists
0
Killiney leads
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
1
0
EV charging
2
Ringsend leads
0
Library & community centre
2
Ringsend leads
210
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
96
Ringsend 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
7m · ~15 rush
Ringsend leads
121m · ~135 rush
Waterford
121m · ~135 rush
146m · ~165 rush
Limericklower is better
142m · ~160 rush
Ringsend leads
157m · ~180 rush
Galwaylower is better
152m · ~175 rush
Ringsend leads
185m · ~205 rush
Corklower is better
181m · ~205 rush
Ringsend leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
6.8
Affluence (Pobal HP)
5.1
Killiney 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
Ringsend · 8 EDs, poorest → richest
-2Pembroke East ABelow average
-2Pembroke East ABelow average
+10Mansion House BAffluent
+10Pembroke West AAffluent
+12Pembroke West AAffluent
+12Pembroke West BVery affluent
+13Pembroke West BVery affluent
+17Mansion House BVery affluent
64.1%
Third-level educated
61.1%
Killiney leads
59.9%
Professional class
46.2%
Killiney leads
6.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.9%
Killiney leads
74.3%
Owner-occupier
38.1%
Killiney leads
22.6%
Private rental
43.8%
2.4%
Social housing (LA)
14.0%

Liveability & safety

AREA · A96 / D04

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (KillineyA96, RingsendD04); safety & crime are the DMR East Garda division.

66/100
Quality of Life
65/100
Killiney leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (A96 / D04) 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.

KillineyRingsendOverall (avg)
Safety66716560
Affordability1015
Infrastructure88100
Family6238
Education7878
Environment8080
Economic7386
020406080100020406080100
#35
National ranklower is better
#50
Killiney leads
#10
County ranklower is better
#13
Killiney leads
71/100
Safety
60/100
Killiney leads
41.6
Crime / 1,000lower is better
60.2
Killiney leads

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.
Ringsend Affluent+5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Pembroke East A -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 14 CSO Small Areas.

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