Town comparison · Kinsealy-Drinan vs Lucan

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Kinsealy-Drinan or Lucan?

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.

Kinsealy-Drinan, Co. Fingal · K67 · 7,526 people | Lucan, Co. Dublin · K78 · 55,785 people

Kinsealy-Drinan is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Lucan’s 2, with 2 level.

Kinsealy-Drinan leads on
affluencesafetyaffordability
Lucan leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transport
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Kinsealy-Drinan aheadlevel or not comparableLucan ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
Kinsealy-DrinanLucan
iKinsealy-Drinan sits in K67, Lucan in K78. 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.

Kinsealy-Drinan
Lucan

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.

7,526
Population
55,785

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€415k
Median sale pricelower is better
€460k
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
€319k – €472k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€401k – €520k
131
Sales (24m)
1,217
+14.2%
Price momentum (YoY)
+5.5%
0.0%
New-build share
30.6%

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.

2 prim · 1 sec
Schools
16 prim · 7 sec
Lucan leads
Kinsealy-Drinan · 3 schools (largest first)
Malahide & Portmarnock Secondary School Secondary
607 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Holywell Educate Together National School Primary
644 pupils · Multi Denominational
Gaelscoil An Duinninigh Primary
385 pupils · Catholic
Lucan · 23 schools (largest first)
Adamstown Community College Secondary
980 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Lucan Community College Secondary
966 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Joseph's College Secondary
937 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Kishoge Community College Secondary
925 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Coláiste Phádraig Cbs Secondary
704 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Griffeen Community College Secondary
537 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St. Kevin's Community College Secondary
488 pupils · 40% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Aine Naofa Primary
617 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Mhuire Primary
576 pupils · Catholic
St Thomas Junior National School Primary
568 pupils · Catholic
Lucan B N S Primary
515 pupils · Catholic
St Marys N S Primary
495 pupils · Catholic
Griffeen Valley Educate Together Ns Primary
480 pupils · Multi Denominational
Adamstown Castle Educate Together National School Primary
432 pupils · Multi Denominational
Lucan East Etns Primary
427 pupils · Multi DenominationalDEIS
St. John The Evangelist National School Primary
418 pupils · Catholic
Esker Educate Together Ns Primary
391 pupils · Multi DenominationalDEIS
St Andrews N S Primary
387 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Lucan Educate Together Ns Primary
384 pupils · Multi Denominational
Lucan Community National School Primary
383 pupils · Multi Denominational
Gaelscoil Naomh Padraig Primary
378 pupils · Catholic
Divine Mercy Senior National School Primary
306 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Divine Mercy Junior National School Primary
213 pupils · CatholicDEIS
9
Creches
43
Lucan leads
1
GP practices
2
Lucan leads
2
Pharmacies
9
Lucan leads
0
Hospitals
3
Lucan leads
21
Bus stops
169
Lucan leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
2
Lucan leads
5
Gyms & leisure
12
Lucan leads
6
Parks & playgrounds
29
Lucan leads
17
Sports pitches
93
Lucan 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.

1
Restaurants
12
Lucan leads
1
Cafés
10
Lucan leads
1
Pubs & bars
8
Lucan leads
2
Takeaways
19
Lucan leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
1,505
Residents per venuelower is better
1,138
Lucan leads

Kinsealy-Drinan is a small town and Lucan is a large town, so their national rankings aren’t like-for-like — each is ranked only against places of its own size. Compare them on the residents-per-venue row instead.

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

2
Supermarkets
12
Lucan leads
1
Convenience shops
11
Lucan leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
Lucan leads
0
Banks
5
Lucan leads
0
Post offices
3
Lucan leads
0
Hairdressers
9
Lucan leads
0
Dentists
2
Lucan leads
0
Vets
2
Lucan leads
0
Filling stations
4
Lucan leads
1
EV charging
6
Lucan leads
1
Library & community centre
9
Lucan leads
1,505
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
858
Lucan 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.

21m · ~40 rush
Dublin
21m · ~40 rush
126m · ~140 rush
Waterfordlower is better
110m · ~125 rush
Lucan leads
148m · ~165 rush
Limericklower is better
132m · ~150 rush
Lucan leads
153m · ~175 rush
Galwaylower is better
133m · ~155 rush
Lucan leads
187m · ~210 rush
Corklower is better
171m · ~195 rush
Lucan leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
5.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
3.4
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
Kinsealy-Drinan · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+5KinsaleyAffluent
+5KinsaleyAffluent
Lucan · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
0Lucan HeightsBelow average
+1Lucan HeightsAbove average
+2Lucan-eskerAbove average
+3Lucan-st. HelensAbove average
+4Lucan-eskerAffluent
+6Lucan-st. HelensAffluent
50.0%
Third-level educated
49.5%
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
44.5%
Professional class
45.0%
Lucan leads
6.8%
Unemploymentlower is better
8.2%
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
68.0%
Owner-occupier
71.1%
Lucan leads
25.8%
Private rental
21.4%
4.4%
Social housing (LA)
5.0%

Liveability & safety

AREA · K67 / K78

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Kinsealy-Drinan → K67, Lucan → K78); safety & crime are the DMR North Garda division.

66/100
Quality of Life
70/100
Lucan leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (K67 / K78) 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.

Kinsealy-DrinanLucanOverall (avg)
Safety66597048
Affordability6659
Infrastructure7593
Family6769
Education5673
Environment7484
Economic6267
020406080100020406080100
#35
National ranklower is better
#18
Lucan leads
#10
County ranklower is better
#6
Lucan leads
59/100
Safety
48/100
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
61.8
Crime / 1,000lower is better
79.6
Kinsealy-Drinan 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.

Kinsealy-Drinan Affluent+5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kinsaley +5 (least affluent) → Kinsaley +5 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Lucan Above average+3.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Lucan Heights 0 (least affluent) → Lucan-st. Helens +6 (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 North), 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 196 CSO Small Areas.

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The stronger town on the data.

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