Town comparison · Kilmallock vs Raheen

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Kilmallock or Raheen?

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.

Kilmallock, Co. Limerick · V35 · 1,761 people | Raheen, Co. Limerick City · V94 · 1,393 people

Raheen is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Kilmallock’s 2, with 1 level.

Kilmallock leads on
affluenceaffordability
Raheen leads on
education levelsschools & amenitiespublic transportaccess to its nearest city
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Kilmallock aheadlevel or not comparableRaheen ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
KilmallockRaheen
iKilmallock sits in V35, Raheen in V94. 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.
!Raheen is a city suburb — 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.

Kilmallock
Raheen

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.

1,761
Population
1,393

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€210k
Median sale pricelower is better
€380k
Kilmallock leads
€129k – €282k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€311k – €449k
112
Sales (24m)
91
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
+0.0%
4.5%
New-build share
0.0%

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
4 prim · 0 sec
Raheen leads
Kilmallock · 2 schools (largest first)
Coláiste Iósaef Secondary
508 pupils · 45% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Mocheallóg Primary
280 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Raheen · 4 schools (largest first)
Scoil Phoil Naofa Primary
579 pupils · Catholic
St Johns Convent Primary
220 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Our Lady Of Lourdes N S Primary
165 pupils · CatholicDEIS
St John The Baptist Boys N S Primary
47 pupils · CatholicDEIS
3
Creches
9
Raheen leads
N/A
GP practices
5
2
Pharmacies
4
Raheen leads
0
Hospitals
2
Raheen leads
2
Bus stops
26
Raheen leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
2
Gyms & leisure
2
1
Parks & playgrounds
0
Kilmallock leads
14
Sports pitches
15
Raheen 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
2
2
Cafés
0
Kilmallock leads
6
Pubs & bars
9
Raheen leads
2
Takeaways
9
Raheen leads
0
Nightclubs
0
1
Cinema & theatre
1
135
Residents per venuelower is better
66
Raheen 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
Raheen leads
3
Convenience shops
3
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
Kilmallock leads
4
Banks
3
Kilmallock leads
1
Post offices
1
5
Hairdressers
5
0
Dentists
2
Raheen leads
0
Vets
1
Raheen leads
4
Filling stations
3
Kilmallock leads
0
EV charging
2
Raheen leads
1
Library & community centre
6
Raheen leads
84
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
48
Raheen 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.

38m · ~55 rush
Limericklower is better
4m · ~5 rush
Raheen leads
65m · ~85 rush
Corklower is better
84m · ~105 rush
Kilmallock leads
108m · ~130 rush
Galwaylower is better
79m · ~105 rush
Raheen leads
113m · ~125 rush
Waterfordlower is better
118m · ~130 rush
Kilmallock leads
167m · ~200 rush
Dublinlower is better
139m · ~175 rush
Raheen leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-7.4
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-10.3
Kilmallock leads
Kilmallock · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-9KilmallockDisadvantaged
-6KilmallockBelow average
Raheen · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-17Ballinacurra BVery disadvantaged
-12Ballinacurra BDisadvantaged
+2BallycumminAbove average
+5BallycumminAffluent
26.6%
Third-level educated
30.1%
Raheen leads
31.5%
Professional class
28.1%
Kilmallock leads
11.6%
Unemploymentlower is better
16.3%
Kilmallock leads
65.4%
Owner-occupier
69.2%
Raheen leads
12.2%
Private rental
18.3%
9.5%
Social housing (LA)
9.2%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V35 / V94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Kilmallock → V35, Raheen → V94); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
62/100
Raheen leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V35 / V94) 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.

KilmallockRaheenOverall (avg)
Safety57426242
Affordability10089
Infrastructure2683
Family8572
Education3246
Environment6562
Economic5040
020406080100020406080100
#93
National ranklower is better
#66
Raheen leads
#3
County ranklower is better
#1
Raheen leads
42/100
Safety
42/100
88.4
Crime / 1,000
88.4

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.

Kilmallock Below average-7.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilmallock -9 (least affluent) → Kilmallock -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Raheen Disadvantaged-10.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbey D -20 (least affluent) → Ballycummin +5 (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 (Limerick), 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 10 CSO Small Areas.

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